PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Air Pollution: Dementia (20 July 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent analysis his Department has undertaken of scientific evidence linking air pollution to dementia, and if he will make a statement.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

The Department secures advice on effects of air pollution on public health from Public Health England, and the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP).

Public Health England continues to keep the evidence under review. COMEAP has been commissioned to further consider the available evidence and will report in due course.

Answered by:
Dr Thérèse Coffey (Conservative)
7 September 2017