To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Chief Medical Officer is taking to (a) address public health problems associated with air pollution and (b) promote potential solutions to those problems.
This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.
Answered on
12 January 2022
The Chief Medical Officer for England is currently writing his 2022 annual report on the topic of air pollution. This report will focus on evidence for potential solutions to reduce the public health impacts of air pollution and will offer recommendations based on this evidence. The report is due to be published in the summer.
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Department of Health and Social Care
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