Ella’s Law reintroduced in the House of Commons

On 1st July 2025, Rosamund and her children attended Parliament to hear The Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill, otherwise known as Ella’s Law, being reintroduced in the House of Commons by the former Green party co-leader and London Assembly member Sian Berry.

The bill aims to protect the public against air pollution which is one of the biggest public health hazards of our time and responsible for tens of thousands of premature deaths in the UK.

Ella’s Law is named after Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death on her death certificate. An inquest ruled that air pollution, specifically exposure to excessive levels near her home in London, contributed to her fatal asthma attack in 2013

Speaking in the House of Commons, Sian Berry said British people should have “the right to grow up and grow old without stunted lungs, without preventable diseases like asthma, and without disabling and potentially lethal harm being done to our lungs, hearts and brains by preventable air pollution”.

She quoted a new report by the Royal College of Physicians, which said evidence gathered over the past decade suggested there were now “links between air pollution and almost every organ in the body and the diseases that affect them”.

Families were still losing loved ones, she argued, to dementia, cancer and heart disease made worse by pollution.

The Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill, will get its second reading in the Commons on 7th November 2025.

Clean air bill known as Ella’s Law championed by cross-party MPs – BBC News