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Environment Bill

Proceeding contribution from Theresa Villiers (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 28 October 2019. It occurred during Debate on bills on Environment Bill.

No, I will make some progress.

I want to highlight clause 2, which contains one of the most ambitious elements of the legislation: namely, a duty to set a legally binding target for PM2.5 fine particulate matter. As Members will be aware, this pollutant has the most significant impact on human health. Poor air quality is the biggest environmental threat to public health. It is shortening lives and causing illness, and this Government are determined to step up our efforts to clean up the air that we breathe—an issue that I know concerns my constituents in Chipping Barnet, and I am sure that that view is shared by many across our nation.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
667 c86 
Session
2019-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Legislation
Environment Bill 2019
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