Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to ministerial directions issued to 23 local authorities on 27 July 2017 alongside the 2017 UK Air Quality Plan, which of those local authorities has submitted (a) a final plan (b) a draft plan and (c) neither a final nor draft plan to his Department; and on what date each respective plan was received by his Department.

The 23 local authorities are working together in eleven groupings. Eight out of the eleven local authority groupings submitted a plan by the 31 December 2018. They are currently under consideration. The local authorities that have submitted a plan are Bath & NE Somerset Council; Basildon & Rochford District councils; Surrey Heath, Guildford and Rushmoor councils; Fareham Borough Council; Gateshead, North Tyneside and Newcastle City councils, Middlesbrough Borough Council, Sheffield City and Rotherham Borough Council, and New Forest District Council. The local authority groupings which have not submitted are Bristol City Council, Coventry City Council and Greater Manchester councils. Ministers are considering the suitable action for those that have and haven’t provided plans.