Air Pollution

(asked on 1st February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on when the UK Health Forum project into the costs to the NHS and to social care from air pollution will (a) conclude and (b) publish its findings.


This question was answered on 8th February 2017

Public Health England (PHE) has commissioned a consortium led by the UK Health Forum to carry out a project on the estimation of costs to the National Health Service and social care due to the health impacts of air pollution as part of PHE’s Health Economics Commissioning Framework. This project is due to end with the publication of the findings in June 2017.

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