Agenda item

Member Questions

(An opportunity for Panel Members to ask questions of the relevant Director/ Assistant Director, relating to pertinent, topical issues affecting their Directorate – maximum of 10 minutes allocated).

Minutes:

A Question by Councillor Smith, and the Officer’s response, was tabled regarding the action the Council and NHS partners were taking to address the fact that Slough had the third highest rate of deaths in the South East attributable to air pollution.

 

(Councillor Qaseem joined the meeting)

 

Councillor Smith indicated that the answer did not adequately address the question, in particular that:

 

·  The information did not clarify the reasons why Slough had a disproportionately higher mortality rate attributable to air pollution.

·  It didn’t include the distribution of health conditions attributed to air pollution by ward, gender and/or ethnic groups.

·  Was the Council reviewing it’s action plan in light of the data?

·  What future arrangements did the Council have in terms of air quality monitoring?

 

The Panel noted that the new SBC Low Emission Strategy would be considered by the Cabinet on Monday 17th September and it was agreed that a fuller report on the health issues raised in the question be received by the Panel, provisionally in November 2018.

 

Resolved –

 

(a)  That the Member Question and Officer response be noted.

 

(b)  That the Panel add an item to the Work Programme on the mortality and health impacts of air pollution in Slough.

 

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