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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Clean Air Strategy published on 14 January 2019, whether the Government is on track to meet its target of reducing particulate emissions from wood and coal burning stoves to 30 per cent or less by the year 2030.

In the Clean Air Strategy, we set out our aim to reduce fine particulate matter emissions from all sources against the 2005 baseline by 30% by 2020, and 46% by 2030. In February 2022 we published updated emissions estimates for 2020 which showed that PM2.5 emissions have reduced by 34% compared to 2005.