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Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill [HL]

A Bill to establish the right to breathe clean air; to require the Secretary of State to achieve and maintain clean air in England and Wales; to involve Public Health England in setting and reviewing pollutants and their limits; to enhance the powers, duties and functions of the Environment Agency, the Committee on Climate Change, local authorities (including port authorities), the Civil Aviation Authority, Highways England, Historic England and Natural England in relation to air pollution; to establish the Citizens’ Commission for Clean Air with powers to institute or ​intervene in legal proceedings; to require the Secretary of State and the relevant national authorities to apply environmental principles in carrying out their duties under this Act and the clean air enactments; and for connected purposes

In progress Current stage: 2nd reading (Lords)

The story so farThe Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill was introduced in the House of Lords on 22 October 2019 by Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green Party). It is now at second reading in the House of Lords. Second reading is the first debate on the overall principle of the bill; if the bill clears it, detailed committee scrutiny follows.

Progress through Parliament

  1. 1st reading Lords 22 Oct 2019
  2. 2nd reading Lords Current

Source: the official bill page. Last updated 8 Nov 2019.