10.00am
Introduction and welcome from Barry Sheerman MP, chair of the Westminster Commission on Road Air Quality
10.05am
Larissa Lockwood from Global Action Plan to discuss the significance and purpose of Clean Air Day
10.10am
Clean air campaigner and activist, Charlotte Smith, will give her perspectives on the challenge of poor air quality and how young people can make a difference in the fight for cleaner air:
What I’m doing to help protect your children’s health!
- Meet the first Youth Ambassador for WCRAQ
- Hear a youth’s perspective on why Zero Emission is essential for all children.
- Learn what Charlotte has achieved so far with her zero emission children’s health campaign and where I plan to take it in the future.
10:20am
In conversation with:
Professor Sir Stephen Holgate, member of Medical Research Council and Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology at the University of Southampton and clean air champion
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Professor Jonathan Grigg of Queen Mary University, London – paediatrician specialising in the respiratory health effects of air pollution
10:40am
An opportunity for colleagues from the House of Commons and House of Lords to ask questions of our guest speakers and share their own experiences on air quality from their constituencies
11.00am
David Davies, the Executive Director of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety and Jason Airey, Director of CMS SupaTrak and Chair of the Commission’s Energy, Fuels and Vehicles Working Party will launch the Commission’s parliamentary dashboard – a tool used to access local and constituency-based data on air quality
11:15am
Barry Sheerman MP will close the event, consider any final thoughts and perspectives from colleagues and detail how Members and Peers can get involved with the work of the Commission