Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 74832
Noise: Pollution
Tabled: 3 September 2025
Answered: 9 September 2025
Question
Munira Wilson
Liberal Democrat — Twickenham
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost of noise pollution to the economy.
Answer
Emma HardyThe UK Health Security Agency estimates that in 2018, around 100,000 Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) were lost in England due to road traffic noise, across the UK population. DALYs are an internationally recognised metric where one DALY represents ...
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