Noise: Pollution
Commons · Question 74832 · Tabled 3 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 9 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Munira Wilson
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
Answered by Emma Hardy, 9 Sep 2025
The 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 ...