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Air Pollution: Greater London

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Question for Department of Health

UIN 226833, tabled on 9 March 2015

Question

Sadiq Khan
Labour
Tooting
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in London have died as a result of air pollution in each year since 2010; and if he will estimate the number of such deaths in the next 10 years.

Answer

Jane Ellison
Conservative
Battersea
Commons

Answered on

12 March 2015

Estimates of the fraction of mortality in English local authority areas and regions attributable to long-term exposure to particulate air pollution arising from human activities are published by Public Health England as one of the indicators in the Department’s Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF). For London, this figure was approximately 7.2% in 2010 and 2011 and 6.6% in 2012; the figures for later years are not currently available. These estimates for later years will be published on an annual basis under the PHOF.

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