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Air Pollution

Asked by Jessica ToaleLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 2 July 2025UIN 62832

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on meeting the World Health Organization's 2021 global air quality guidelines.

Answered by Emma Hardy

The Government is committed to cleaning up our air. We consider the World Health Organization's guidelines when reviewing our own targets and are making progress towards meeting them. We publish our progress against our current targets in the Air Pollution in the UK report each September, and last week we published updated statistics on air pollution concentrations in 2024 based on our monitoring data.

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