Air Pollution: Standards
(asked on 30th January 2023) - 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 she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing higher air quality targets on the concentration of PM2.5.
Answered by
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 6th February 2023
The air quality targets Statutory Instrument was made on 31st January 2023 (available here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/96/contents/made).
We have taken an evidence-led approach to set targets which are stretching, achievable and appropriate for our national circumstances.