Air Pollution: Monitoring
(asked on 13th July 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, what information her Department holds on the number of PM2.5 monitors installed in each (a) constituency and (b) local authority area in each of the last five years.
The Environment Agency operates the Automatic Urban and Rural Network (AURN) on behalf of Defra and the devolved administrations for the purposes of assessing PM2.5 levels across the UK. There are currently 103 sites monitoring PM2.5 on this network and the table below shows how these sites are distributed by local authority (Nb Local Authorities may also undertake their own monitoring but these are not included). The AURN network is in the process of being expanded for the purposes of assessing the new PM2.5 targets in England and more sites will be coming online over the next 2-3 years.
Local Authority | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
Aberdeen City | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Belfast | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Bexley | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Birmingham | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Blackpool | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Bournemouth | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Bristol, City of | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Camden | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Cardiff | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Carlisle | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Central Bedfordshire | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Chesterfield | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Christchurch | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Cornwall | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Coventry | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Derry | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Eastbourne | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Edinburgh, City of | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Falkirk | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Fermanagh and Omagh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Glasgow City | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Greenwich | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Highland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Hillingdon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Inverclyde | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Kensington and Chelsea | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Kingston upon Hull, City of | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Leeds | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Leicester | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Lewisham | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Liverpool | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Manchester | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Medway | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Middlesbrough | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Midlothian | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Monmouthshire | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Neath Port Talbot | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Newport | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
North Devon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Northampton | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Norwich | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Nottingham | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Oxford | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Pembrokeshire | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Plymouth | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Portsmouth | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Preston | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Reading | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Richmond | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Salford | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Sheffield | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
Southampton | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Southend-on-Sea | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Stoke on Trent | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Sunderland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Swansea | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Test Valley | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Thurrock | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Warrington | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Warwick | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Westminster | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Wigan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Wirral | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Worthing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Wrexham | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
York | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Brighton and Hove | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Canterbury | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
Cheshire East | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
East Cambridgeshire | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
East Devon | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
East Staffordshire | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
Hartlepool | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
Hertsmere | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
Kirklees | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
North East Lincolnshire | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
North Norfolk | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
Ryedale | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
South Somerset | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
Swindon | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
Teignbridge | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
Telford and Wrekin | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
Tendring | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
Wealden | NA | NA | NA | 1 | 1 |
Barnsley | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1 |
Milton Keynes | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1 |