National Air Quality Strategy

HL Deb 21 October 1998 vol 593 c156WA

Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde

asked Her Majesty's Government:

When the current review of the National Air Quality Strategy will be completed. [HL3500]

Lord Whitty

My honourable friend Angela Eagle the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, announced on 23 June,Official Report (HC Deb. WA 431–432) that the review of the National Air Quality Strategy, originally planned for 1999, would now be completed by the end of this year, to look at the prospects of delivering cleaner air more quickly. We can confirm that we are on course to meet this and we aim to publish our proposals to amend the strategy for consultation in the New Year.