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<p>(a) Government support has included £250 million, since 2017 alone, to Greater
Manchester for cleaner better transport to help improve air quality. Manchester authorities,
including Salford, are working together to develop a Clean Air Plan for Manchester.
The Government is committed to providing the required financial and technical support
to local authorities to enable delivery of their air quality plans. We are working
closely with Greater Manchester to reduce air pollution and have committed £495 million
for local authorities to implement and mitigate their plans. We will be able to consider
Greater Manchester’s funding requirement once their final plan is received; it was
due in December 2018, but will not be provided until March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>(b)
The UK continues to meet all current international air quality limits, except for
Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations (NO2). In July 2017, we published the NO2 Plan, backed
by £3.5 billion of funding, which sets out the steps we are taking to reduce NO2 concentrations
in the shortest possible time, thus complying with NO2 limits as soon as possible.
We are working intensively with local authorities, to identify measures to swiftly
bring forward compliance, and support them with guidance and funding. This includes
major cities outside the Capital which are exceeding NO2 limits, including Greater
Manchester Authorities, such as Salford. Additionally, we published our new world
leading Clean Air Strategy on 14 January 2019, which has been welcomed by the World
Health Organisation as “an example for the rest of the world to follow”.</p>
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