Select Committee · Public Accounts Committee

Tackling local air quality breaches

Status: Closed Opened: 6 Jun 2022 Closed: 14 Dec 2022 6 recommendations 27 conclusions 1 report

The UK has air quality targets which specify legal limits of major pollutants at a local and a national level. While emissions of most air pollutants have been falling in recent decades, air quality continues to cause significant health, economic and environmental risks, and the UK is not currently meeting its statutory obligations for local …

Reports

1 report

Title	HC No.	Published	Items	Response
Twenty-Second Report - Tackling local air quality breaches	HC 37	26 Oct 2022	33	Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item

3 Recommendation Twenty-Second Report - Tackling local a… Accepted in Part

Central government has not always got the balance right in how it works in partnership...

Central government has not always got the balance right in how it works in partnership with local government, having been prescriptive in some respects, while seeming to avoid responsibilities that naturally sit at a national level in others. The best approach to addressing air quality issues varies between areas according …

Government response. The government agrees with the recommendation. It states that local authorities are responsible for developing Clean Air Plans, with support from a dedicated account manager, and that each local authority has the flexibility to identify measures other than Clean Air …

HM Treasury

Oral evidence sessions

1 session

Date	Witnesses
27 Jun 2022	David Hill · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Gareth Davies CB · Department for Business and Trade, Nick Harris · National Highways	View ↗

Correspondence

2 letters

Date	Direction	Title
20 Oct 2022	—	Joint correspondence from David Hill, Director General for Environment, Rural a…
17 Oct 2022	—	Joint correspondence from Gareth Davies Second, Permanent Secretary of the Depa…