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<p>The UK continues to meet all current international air quality limits except for
NO2. In July 2017 we published the NO2 Plan, backed by £3.5 billion funding, which
sets out the steps we are taking to comply with NO2 limits as soon as possible. Also,
we published our ambitious Clean Air Strategy in January which the Director-General
of the World Health Organization described as “an example for the rest of the world
to follow”.</p><p> </p><p>Recognising that there are still local authorities which
are in breach of statutory limits on roadside NO2 concentrations, the UK government
allocated £495 million of funding to support local authorities in its 2017 plan. Local
authorities already have many powers to monitor and reduce air pollution and we continue
to work intensively with them, to identify measures to bring forward compliance as
soon as possible.</p>
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