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1470676

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Lung Diseases: Air Pollution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps in response to the worsening of symptoms for people with a lung condition triggered by high air pollution; and if he will meet representatives of Asthma + Lung UK to discuss (a) that matter and (b) other findings published in its report entitled Alerting the Nation: Improving the way information is used to protect the most vulnerable from air pollution.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	18764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government has set two new targets for fine particulate matter and increased the funding available to local authorities through the Air Quality Grant Scheme to £11.6 million to support councils deliver projects to address air pollution and its impact on health.</p><p>The Government supports an expert group, including Asthma + Lung UK, to improve the information and advice on air pollution on the UK-AIR website. We are also working with organisations such as Health Education England and the Royal Colleges to ensure that healthcare professionals are equipped to treat those vulnerable to the health impacts of air pollution.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 24/06/2022 12:00:28 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1463004

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Pollution Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has analysis to show by how much particulate matter emissions need to be reduced in order to reduce premature deaths caused by air pollution in the UK by half.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	2344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2022 answer text <p>No specific analysis has been undertaken. However, the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants has assessed the long-term exposure to man-made air pollution in the United Kingdom, based on studies reporting associations of mortality risk with fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide. It was estimated that for a one microgram per cubic metre reduction in nitrogen dioxide, approximately 420,000 to 903,000 life years could be saved in the UK over the next 106 years, associated with an increase in life expectancy at birth of two to five days.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 19/05/2022 08:42:46 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1460045

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with representatives of NHS Test and Trace on the use of the results of privately purchased covid-19 antigen tests to ensure that (a) the spread of covid-19 is tracked and (b) people who may have been in close contact with an infected person are alerted.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	158855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 28/04/2022 10:38:40 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1456305

registered interest
date	31/03/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, further to the Answer of 25 November 2022 to Question 81866 on Air Pollution: Death, what his timetable is for publishing the Public Health Indicator PHOF-D01 for 2020 values.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	150962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>The Public Health Outcomes Framework indicator (PHOF) - D01 is usually updated annually in February by the UK Health Security Agency. However, due to changes in the methodology following the publication of the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants statement in 2022, the update for 2020 values will be published in May 2022.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 19/04/2022 09:19:29 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1456306

registered interest
date	31/03/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Air Pollution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Chief Medical Officer is taking to tackle air pollution problems following his speech at the Clean Air Summit in London on Thursday 17 February 2022.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	150963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2022 answer text <p>The Chief Medical Officer’s 2022 annual report will focus on evidence for potential solutions to reduce the public health impacts of air pollution and offer recommendations based on this evidence. The report is due to be published in summer 2022.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 20/04/2022 10:36:01 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup previous answer version 63955 answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1456309

registered interest
date	31/03/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Chief Medical Officer on bringing forward legislative proposals to help tackle air pollution and its associated illnesses.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	150964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2022 answer text <p>While the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs lead on legislative proposals regarding air pollution, the Department of Health and Social Care continues to engage across Government on this issue. This includes discussions with the Chief Medical Officer for England.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 20/04/2022 10:32:20 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1456310

registered interest
date	31/03/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Air Conditioning
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with relevant stakeholders on the finding of the study by Morris and others entitled, The removal of airborne SARS-COV-2 and other bioaerosols on air filtration on COVID-19 surge units, published on 30 October 2021, that SARS-CoV-2 RNA was only detected in particles larger than 1 micron in diameter.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	150965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>Representatives of NHS Test and Trace and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have held discussions with experts in air purification technologies, including representatives from research prior to commissioning research on environmental technologies. The UKHSA will continue to engage with relevant stakeholders. The outcomes of the study by Morris et al have informed the Addenbrookes Air Disinfection Study, which is currently underway. The study’s main authors are members of the working group established by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to oversee the study.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup grouped question UIN 150966 question first answered 19/04/2022 09:08:47 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1456312

registered interest
date	31/03/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Air Conditioning
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the study by Morris and others entitled, The removal of airborne SARS-COV-2 and other microbial bioaerosols on air filtration on COVID-19 surge units, published on 30 October 2021, if he will hold discussions with relevant stakeholders on the finding of that study on the effectiveness of using mechanical ventilation systems or standalone air filtration with ePM1 80 per cent minimum efficiency to remove some 96 per cent of the airborne covid-19 virus within two air changes.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	150966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>Representatives of NHS Test and Trace and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have held discussions with experts in air purification technologies, including representatives from research prior to commissioning research on environmental technologies. The UKHSA will continue to engage with relevant stakeholders. The outcomes of the study by Morris et al have informed the Addenbrookes Air Disinfection Study, which is currently underway. The study’s main authors are members of the working group established by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to oversee the study.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup grouped question UIN 150965 question first answered 19/04/2022 09:08:47 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1453589

registered interest
date	23/03/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of excess deaths attributable to one or more air pollution episodes in the UK in March and April 2014.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	145791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>The United Kingdom experienced widespread high levels of particulate air pollution in March and April 2014 and observations of hourly mean PM<sub>2.5 </sub>(particulate matter) concentrations reached up to 83 μg m<sup>− 3</sup> at urban background sites.</p><p>The former Public Health England performed an exposure and health impact assessment of the air pollution, focusing on two episodes with the highest concentrations of PM<sub>2.5</sub> between 12 to 14 March and 28 March to 3 April 2014. This estimated that approximately 600 deaths were brought forward from short-term exposure to PM<sub>2.5</sub>, representing 3.9% of total all-cause mortality excluding external causes during the episodes. Using observed levels of PM<sub>2.5</sub> from other years, the mortality burden was estimated to be is 2.0 to 2.7 times the burden associated with typical urban background levels of PM<sub>2.5</sub> at this time of year.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 28/03/2022 16:05:04 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1399867

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Public Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	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.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	98180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2022 answer text <p>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.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 12/01/2022 10:09:10 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup previous answer version 42109 answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies