Air Pollution: Pollution Control

(asked on 22nd June 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has modelled the likelihood of reducing the average annual concentration of PM2.5 pollution to 10µg/m3 at any point between 2030 and 2040.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 1st July 2022

We set out the information we considered when setting our PM2.5 Environment Act target in the evidence packs which can be found at:

https://consult.defra.gov.uk/natural-environment-policy/consultation-on-environmental-targets/

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