Air Pollution

(asked on 26th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the evidential basis that substantiates the statement made by his Department's spokesperson and reported in September 2022 that (a) air pollution has reduced significantly since 2010 and (b) at a national level emissions of fine particulate matter have fallen by 11 per cent, while emissions of nitrogen oxides are at their lowest level since records began.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 31st January 2022

Emissions of key air pollutants are compiled and reported by Defra on an annual basis through the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory and the data for nitrogen oxides and both coarse and fine particulate matter is available to view at https://naei.beis.gov.uk/data. The data for 2010 and all years up to 2019 is available from this website.

The National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory is also used as the basis for the National Statistics report ‘Emissions of air pollutants in the UK’ which describes the trends in emissions of air pollutants over time. The latest report, published February 2021, is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/emissions-of-air-pollutants.

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