Citizens’ jury rules
on air quality
A citizens’ jury has told air
quality minister Jonathan
Shaw what should be done
about pollution.
The Defra citizen’s jury, one
of many commissioned by
the Government in a bid to
appear to be listening to the...
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Citizens’ jury rules
on air quality
A citizens’ jury has told air
quality minister Jonathan
Shaw what should be done
about pollution.
The Defra citizen’s jury, one
of many commissioned by
the Government in a bid to
appear to be listening to the
people, focused on air quality
issues.
Each jury is made up
of 20 or more members of
the public and typically cost
£50,000-£100,000 to run.
For the Defra jury, three
representatives handed over
their report Articulating public
values in environmental
policy development at a
meeting with the minister and
the air quality policy team led
by AEQ head Martin
Williams.
Defra will now
consider the report and
respond to its findings.
Twenty two members of
the public were recruited last
year from a range of rural,
urban and city environments
across the West Midlands to
take part in a discussion on
air quality.
They were asked
to consider what
improvements they would
like to see in air quality and
how these
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