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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures her Department has in place to record noise nuisance incidents.

Defra does not keep records of noise nuisance incidents. Local authorities are the main enforcers of the statutory noise nuisance regime and associated legislation. There is no obligation on local authorities to report noise complaints data to central government. The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health carries out a voluntary annual survey of local authorities regarding complaints about noise, the results of which are published as part of the Public Health Outcomes Framework and may be found via the following weblink: http://www.phoutcomes.info/search/noise.