<p>Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:51 pm on 7 March 2017.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 1:51, 7 March 2017

As I said, five people a week are dying because of air quality issues in Wales—that’s 2,000 people a year. That is a frightening figure, and as Public Health Wales have identified today, it is one of the biggest, if not the biggest issue that we do face. The programme ‘Week In Week Out’ today invited the Welsh Government to take part in that programme, and regrettably they chose not to and just issued a written statement. Can you understand why people are concerned that they’re not seeing real progress in their communities when they can’t see the lead coming from the Welsh Government to make these improvements? As I understand it, the figure of infringements is 18, and yet the community in Caerphilly county borough that is cited has had 57 different infringements of air quality in that particular area. They are still blighted day in, day out with the pollutants in the atmosphere of that particular area. We do need to get a sense of what we can calibrate at the end of this Assembly as looking like a success in this particular area. What would you deem as a successful outcome from the measures that you will be taking by 2021, First Minister?