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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2026 to Question 30769 on Air Pollution: Warnings, if she will set out the difference between (a) proactive air quality warnings and (b) alerts and forecasts; and if she will set out the difference (i) press releases and (ii) sign-up and subscription services.

Defra’s new air quality alert system brings together previously separate systems for communicating high air pollution levels. This alerting system proactively sends out alerts to users when air pollution is forecast to be high. If pollution levels later measure high, then an additional alert will be sent.