Planning Permission: Air Pollution
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 20 January 2025, to Question 23647, on Planning Permission: Air Pollution, for what reason the interim guidance was approved without an (a) public sector equality duty assessment and (b) environmental principles assessment.
Answered by Emma Hardy
The environmental principles were considered throughout the development of the interim guidance, and the policy has due regard to the aims of the public sector equality duty. The Answer of 20 January 2025, pursuant to Question 23647 was interpreted as a request for the publication of a formal assessment of how the environmental principles were applied and publication of an equality impact assessment. Publication of these assessments is not required.
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