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Environment Bill: air quality enforcement

EDM (Early Day Motion) 186: tabled on 13 February 2020

Tabled in the 2019-21 session.

This motion has been signed by 30 Members. It has not yet had any amendments submitted.

Motion text

That this House notes that, according to the Royal College of Physicians, air pollution accounts for 64,000 premature deaths at a cost of £20 billion each year; further notes that enforceable EU air pollution targets will no longer apply after 1 January 2021, that the Government has accepted World Health Organisation (WHO) air pollution guidelines; and calls on the Government to include in the Environment Bill the requirement that PM2.5 reaches the WHO guideline annual mean concentration of 10 µg/m3 by 2030 with interim targets of 12 µg/m3 by 2025 and 15 µg/m3 2021, and urges that these limits are enforced by the proposed Office for Environmental Protection through fines that are then paid to the NHS towards the health costs of air pollution and to local authorities to reduce air pollution.

The first 6 Members who have signed to support the motion are the sponsors. The primary sponsor is generally the person who tabled the motion and has responsibility for it. The date shown is when the Member signed the motion.

In addition to the sponsors, the following Members have signed to support the motion.

Winter, Beth
Labour
Signed on 13 February 2020
Cynon Valley
Huq, Dr Rupa
Labour
Signed on 13 February 2020
Ealing Central and Acton
Duffield, Rosie
Labour
Signed on 13 February 2020
Canterbury
McDonagh, Siobhain
Labour
Signed on 13 February 2020
Mitcham and Morden
Tarry, Sam
Labour
Signed on 13 February 2020
Ilford South
Osborne, Kate
Labour
Signed on 13 February 2020
Jarrow
Hendrick, Sir Mark
Labour
Signed on 13 February 2020
Preston
Edwards, Jonathan
Plaid Cymru
Signed on 13 February 2020
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
Sobel, Alex
Labour
Signed on 13 February 2020
Leeds North West
Abrahams, Debbie
Labour
Signed on 13 February 2020
Oldham East and Saddleworth
Byrne, Ian
Labour
Signed on 13 February 2020
Liverpool, West Derby
Thomas, Gareth
Labour
Signed on 13 February 2020
Harrow West
Foy, Mary Kelly
Labour
Signed on 13 February 2020
City of Durham
Hobhouse, Wera
Liberal Democrat
Signed on 21 February 2020
Bath
Johnson, Kim
Labour
Signed on 24 February 2020
Liverpool, Riverside
Mishra, Navendu
Labour
Signed on 24 February 2020
Stockport
Anderson, Fleur
Labour
Signed on 24 February 2020
Putney
Shannon, Jim
Democratic Unionist Party
Signed on 24 February 2020
Strangford
Jardine, Christine
Liberal Democrat
Signed on 26 February 2020
Edinburgh West
Moran, Layla
Liberal Democrat
Signed on 26 February 2020
Oxford West and Abingdon
Cruddas, Jon
Labour
Signed on 27 February 2020
Dagenham and Rainham
Doughty, Stephen
Labour
Signed on 27 February 2020
Cardiff South and Penarth
Yasin, Mohammad
Labour
Signed on 27 February 2020
Bedford
Davies-Jones, Alex
Labour
Signed on 27 February 2020
Pontypridd

There are no withdrawn signatures for this motion.