Air Pollution: Newcastle upon Tyne

(asked on 19th May 2021) - 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 estimate he has made of the average level of air pollution in Newcastle upon Tyne; and if he will publish those figures for each of the last five years.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 24th May 2021

We are continuing to deliver our ambitious plans to improve air quality. To tackle local nitrogen dioxide exceedances, we are providing £880 million to help local authorities develop and implement local air quality plans and to support those impacted by these plans.

The Joint Air Quality Unit has provided funding and support to, and continues to work closely with, Newcastle City Council and Gateshead Council as they develop plans to tackle their nitrogen dioxide exceedances.

There are two monitoring stations on the national Automatic Urban and Rural Network (AURN) that are located within the Newcastle City Council area. Both the Newcastle Centre and Newcastle Cradlewell Roadside stations measure concentrations of nitrogen dioxide and PM10. The Newcastle Centre station also measures concentrations of PM2.5 and ozone.

Measurements from the Newcastle Centre station are published on the UK-AIR website at the following URL: https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/flat_files?site_id=NEWC

Measurements from the Newcastle Cradlewell Roadside station are published on the UK-AIR website at the following URL:

https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/flat_files?site_id=NCA3

Local authorities are additionally required to review and assess local air quality and to publish monitoring data in their Annual Status Reports along with the measures they are taking to improve air quality in their areas. Newcastle City Council’s Annual Status Reports can be viewed on the council’s website:

https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/services/environment-and-waste/environmental-health-and-pollution/air-pollution/air-quality

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