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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) schools and (b) playgrounds in England that are in the vicinity of air quality monitoring sites that have recorded a rise in the level of air pollutants in the last 12 months.

Data on the location of monitoring sites, as well as pollutant concentrations from these sites, is available on the UK Air website (https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk).