Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:49 pm on 7 March 2017.
Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. First Minister, today there’s this startling news that five people a week are dying in Wales—five people a day, sorry, dying in Wales—because of air pollution. This is a frightening figure that my colleague David Melding has raised many times in this Chamber, and the Welsh Conservatives led a debate on this in July. Many communities will rightly be looking to the Welsh Government to try to understand what measures the Government will be taking to improve air quality through the lifetime of this Assembly? I’d be grateful if you could give us some understanding of the action that the Welsh Government is taking to make sure that communities such as those in Caerphilly county borough that are cited in the ‘Week In Week Out’ programme today can take comfort and see real improvement.