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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of the findings set out in the report entitled EMEP Status Report 1/2022 Transboundary particulate matter, photo-oxidants, acidifying and eutrophying components, published on 29 September 2022.

UK representatives attended the Eighth Joint Session of the EMEP Steering Body and Working Group on Effects meeting in September, where a summary of the EMEP status report was presented and the Review report of the Gothenburg Protocol. All of the outputs from Norwegian Meteorological Institute carried out as part of MSC-West under the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution can be found at https://www.emep.int/mscw/. We will consider the results from the reports.