Air Pollution

(asked on 8th December 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, if he will publish the latest estimate of the tonnage of UK primary emissions of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in 2019 from (a) wood burning in closed stoves in domestic premises, (b) wood burning in open fires in domestic premises, (c) coal burning in domestic premises, (d) bonfires, (e) fire pits, (f) incinerators, (g) wildfires, (h) pizza ovens, (i) commercial waste burning, and (j) other forms of combustion.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 13th December 2021

Emissions of key air pollutants are compiled and reported by Defra on an annual basis through the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI). The data for 2019 is publicly available and was reported on 15 February 2021, via: https://naei.beis.gov.uk/data/

Emissions specifically from bonfires, fire pits and pizza ovens are not estimated in the inventory.

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