§ Lord Ormeasked Her Majesty's Government:
What steps they are taking to implement the National Air Quality Strategy.
§ Baroness HaymanThe Government are pleased to announce that the Air Quality Regulations 1997 have been laid today. These regulations will set the National Air Quality Strategy objectives in statutory form and initiate the system of local air quality management under Part IV of the Environment Act 1995. My right honourable friend the Minister for the Environment also announced in July that this Government would initiate an immediate review of the National Air Quality Strategy. This review will look at all aspects of the strategy, including the objectives themselves and the measures required to meet them.