Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
(asked on 16th June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of each type of air quality monitors Highways England have put into operation along the Strategic Road Network; whether the pollution concentrations at each monitoring location have been published by Highways England.
Answered by
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Highways England (HE) currently has 74 air quality monitoring stations alongside the Strategic Road Network. 57 of these are part of its National Air Quality Monitoring Network. The type and number of stations is set out in the table below.
Type of air quality monitoring station* | Number |
MCERTS nitrogen oxide chemiluminescent analyser | 61 |
MCERTS ozone analyser | 11 |
MCERTS Beta Attenuation Mass Measuring particulate analyser | 2 |
*MCERTS (Monitoring Certification Scheme) is the Environment Agency’s Monitoring Certification Scheme.
HE annual site monitoring reports have not been published; however, information from the reports has been provided on request. HE has annual monitoring reports for the number of sites set out in the table below.
Year** | Number of sites for which annual monitoring reports are held |
2016 | 15 |
2017 | 31 |
2018 | 43 |
2019 | 57 (in draft) |
**2016 is the first year of data for the first monitoring sites installed.