Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 4 June 2019.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Labour
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the use of metred dose inflators containing hydrofluorocarbons in releasing greenhouse gases.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Labour
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the proportion of the NHS carbon footprint made by hydrofluorocarbon in metred dose inflators.
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
We have made no such assessment on the proportion of the National Health Service carbon footprint made by hydrofluorocarbon in metred dose inhalers or of the impact of the use of metred dose inhalers containing hydrofluorocarbons in releasing greenhouse gases. However, we are informed by NHS England that the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory calculated the carbon emissions from inhalers in England as 850,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents. This is equivalent to approximately 4% of the entire carbon footprint of the NHS in England.
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