Rosamund meets with Secretary of State, Wes Streeting

On 6th February 2025, Rosamund spent the morning with Secretary of State Wes Streeting. They discussed the impact of air pollution on the nation’s health, over 43,000 premature deaths per year and many more with toxic air contributing to dementia, cancer, heart disease and so on.  Ella died from air pollution nearly 12 years ago, but they agreed that in this day and age it is an absolute disgrace that 45 more children (in the last 4 years alone) have died from asthma, all of whom were breathing illegal levels of air pollution.  Mr Streeting told Rosamund that he was committed to working together to clean up the air we breathe. She hopes his other Cabinet counterparts in Transport and DEFRA will work with him to tackle this public health emergency.  The most vulnerable in our society are contributing the least but suffering the most from air pollution. Rosamund is hopeful that Mr Streeting will do what is right to fix this.