Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2016 to Question 49572, how often the Joint Air Quality Unit working group has (a) met to date and (b) will meet routinely.

The Joint Air Quality Unit is a permanent team that was formally established in April 2016. The unit leads on the delivery of the national air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide, published in December last year.

Around a third of the Joint Air Quality Unit’ s staff is drawn from Department for Transport (DfT) with the remaining two thirds being made up of Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) staff. Both Defra and DfT members of the unit have Defra as their primary working location. Consequently, DfT and Defra members of the team have worked, and will continue to work, together on a daily basis.