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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2018 to Question 142751, on incinerators, what other sizes of particulates the term other particulates refers to.

The Environment Agency requires operators to continuously monitor atmospheric emissions of total particulate matter. In practice, the vast majority of particulate matter emitted by incinerators is likely to be PM10 or less, which includes PM2.5, PM1.0 and PM0.1.