Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) pollution; to establish the Citizens’ Commission for Clean Air with powers to institute or intervene - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) Air pollution was down by an incredible 26.9%. - Speech Link
2: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) Air pollution is a health crisis. There is a national air crisis. - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) Air pollution is like a ticking timebomb for our children. - Speech Link
4: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) Every year, 36,000 people in the UK die a premature death as a result of toxic air, and 4,000 of them - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Brown of Cambridge (XB - Life peer) When we think of pollution, CO2 emissions causing climate change and plastic, water and air pollution - Speech Link
2: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) heart disease and premature death. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) The death of Ella Kissi-Debrah meant that it was understood that such pollution could cause deaths, as - Speech Link
Written Evidence Jan. 19 2024
Inquiry: Children, young people and the built environmentFound: pollution stated as the cause of her death.[5] Houses that do not have proper insulation and ventilation
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will (a) issue guidance and (b) provide resources to local authorities to help tackle household air pollution.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Government is taking significant and wide-ranging action to drive improvements to air quality, as set out in our Environmental Improvement Plan, including by providing over £883 million to help local authorities develop and implement local nitrogen dioxide reduction plans, and to support those impacted by these plans.
The Government has published guidance for private and social landlords on understanding and addressing the health risks of damp and mould, following the tragic death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak from a severe respiratory condition due to prolonged exposure to mould in his home, and is additionally investing £10 million into the Healthy Homes pilots, working with selected local authorities to test measures to improve enforcement on damp and mould in private rented sector housing, while boosting the capability and capacity of enforcement teams in the greatest areas of housing and health need. Further information on the guidance for private and social landlords is available at the following link:
Written Evidence Jan. 09 2024
Inquiry: Urban Green SpacesFound: Air pollution poses a significant threat to urbanites, being the 4th leading risk factor for early
Mentions:
1: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester, Gorton) What steps his Department is taking to reduce levels of PM2.5 air pollution. - Speech Link
2: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester, Gorton) Manchester has some of the highest air pollution levels in the country, with thousands of children being - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) The Government take air pollution incredibly seriously, which is why we have awarded £53 million to English - Speech Link
Asked by: Geraint Davies (Independent - Swansea West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 30 May 2023 to Question 185872 on Death, if he will publish the total number of deaths from all causes (a) including and (b) excluding covid-19 for each (i) area, (ii) region and (iii) country in 2022 in which there was an estimated fraction of mortality attributable to particulate air pollution in 2021.
Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 1 December is attached
Written Evidence Mar. 06 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: pollution, and the circulation of dust particles and increased pollen; water-borne infections