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Hospitals: Air Pollution

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 70941, tabled on 25 October 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the NHS last produced an audit of the air particulates and pollutants faced by NHS patients, workers and visitors in and around NHS hospitals.

Answered on

2 November 2022

The information requested is not collected centrally by NHS England. As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, the NHS is committed to reducing its fleet air pollutant emissions by 20% by 2023/24.