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686096

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date	07/02/2017
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of premature deaths attributed to particulate air pollution; and what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of Public Health England's report, Estimating local mortality burdens associated with particulate air pollution.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	63494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2017 answer text <p>The Government have committed more than £2 billion since 2011 to reduce transport emissions and the Autumn Statement provided a further £290 million to support greener transport.</p><p> </p><p>We are developing the Air Pollution Action Plan. This is to tackle the five main pollutants: sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, non-methane volatile organic compounds, ammonia and fine particulate matter. The UK has agreed legally binding national ceilings for emissions of these pollutants by 2020 and 2030.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/02/2017 11:18:38 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

642325

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
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, what estimate he has made of the mortality rate in (a) England and (b) Greater Manchester caused by long-term exposure to particulate air pollution arising from human activities.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Andy Burnham
uin	54346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2016 answer text <p>The fraction of annual all-cause adult mortality attributable to anthropogenic (human-made) particulate air pollution (measured as fine particulate matter, PM2.5*) is provided by the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) indicator 3.01.</p><p> </p><p>This calculates the mortality burden associated with long-term exposure to anthropogenic particulate air pollution at current levels, expressed as the percentage of annual deaths from all causes in those aged 30+.</p><p> </p><p>In formation on presents the fraction of mortality attributable to particulate air pollution extracted from the PHOF 3.01 indicator, for the period 2010-14, for England, North West and Areas within the Greater Manchester Area (as GMA is not an Administrative Area) is available at:</p><p><a href="http://www.phoutcomes.info/search/air%20quality#page/4/gid/1/pat/6/par/E12000002/ati/102/are/E08000010/iid/90357/age/1/sex/4" target="_blank">http://www.phoutcomes.info/search/air%20quality#page/4/gid/1/pat/6/par/E12000002/ati/102/are/E08000010/iid/90357/age/1/sex/4</a></p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 25/11/2016 14:42:24 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	1427 label Biography information for Andy Burnham

381804

registered interest
date	17/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
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, what estimate he has made of the number of people in London who have died as a result of air pollution in each year since 2010; and if he will estimate the forecast number of such deaths in the next 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	2968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2015 answer text <p>Estimates of the fraction of mortality in English local authority areas and regions attributable to long-term exposure to particulate air pollution arising from human activities are published by Public Health England as one of the indicators in the Department’s Public Health Outcomes Framework, which is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.phoutcomes.info/search/air%20pollution#gid/1/pat/6/ati/101/page/0/par/E12000007/are/E09000002" target="_blank">http://www.phoutcomes.info/search/air%20pollution#gid/1/pat/6/ati/101/page/0/par/E12000007/are/E09000002</a>)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Long-term exposure to air pollution is understood to be a contributory factor to deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular disease.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 26/06/2015 11:47:03 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook