TECHNICAL REPORT Unlocking local action on clean air

National roles on Air Quality The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) leads on air quality and pollution and the Secretary of State has legal duties to set plans and targets, report and plan to improve air quality and limit pollution. [...] Additionally, the Department for Transport (DfT), the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Department for Levelling Up Housing & Communities (DLUHC) and the Department for Health and Social Care all have responsibilities with powerful levers to deliver clean air and improve air quality, and their policies and funding streams can support, or counter progress to unlocking action. [...] They have the legal responsibility and powers to deliver clean air in their 6 IPPR | Unlocking local action on clean air – TECHNICAL REPORT areas and so have the greatest power to support the achievement of the population exposure targets.” Air Quality Strategy Framework for Local Authority Delivery (2023) This is the strategic framework for local authorities and other partners. [...] LOCAL AUTHORITY DUTIES AND THE POWERS AVAILABLE TO THEM TO IMPROVE AIR QUALITY Local air quality management Smoke control Environmental permitting Monitoring and assessment, Enforcement of smoke Duty to publish a register if in exceedance, declare an control areas of all the permitted Air Quality Management Area installations in the local Primary Enforcing trading area duties and Develop and imple. [...] The Mayor has a legal Must have regard to the air quality provisions in the London responsibility to prepare and to keep under Environment Strategy regarding their LAQM functions and report review an Air Quality Strategy for the Greater through the London LAQM System.