Assembly response to Mayor's draft Air Quality Strategy

The Environment Committee welcomes the publication of Clearing the Air, the Mayor's draft Air Quality Strategy, and where it makes positive progress towards tackling London's air quality issues and their effects on Londoners' health.

This response sets out the need for further work to improve the strategy, in the following areas:

• estimating the effect of the strategy in terms of: – concentrations of pollutants – the base-case emissions projections it uses – health impacts on Londoners • timescales for the implementation of measures • more detailed costing and funding of proposed measures • the need for national and local government cooperation • how Londoners will be involved.

The Mayor subsequently responded to the Committee's comments. In August 2010, the Environment Committee responded a second time on the public draft Air Quality strategy.