Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the UK Health Security Agency (a) has a policy on issuing, (b) issues and (c) arranges for another body to issue proactive episode-specific air-quality warnings to news media; and if her Department will publish principal advice received on that issue from that Agency, Public Health England and the Health Protection Agency since 1 January 2011.

The UK Health Security Agency works with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the UK Air Quality Information System, which provides advice to the public through the UK Daily Air Quality Index (DAQI) during episodes of elevated air pollution. Further information on the DAQI is available at the following link:

https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/air-pollution/daqi