PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Air Pollution (30 November 2016)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of reducing the limit value for particulate matter from 25g/m3 to the World Health Organisation's air quality guidelines of 10g/m3.
Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)
Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)
Answer
Latest compliance data show that the UK is meeting the EU daily and annual mean limits values for particulate matter (PM) concentrations at both PM10 and PM2.5 size categories.
No specific assessment has been made of the potential merits of reducing the limit value for PM from EU limit values to the World Health Organisation air quality guidelines
Answered by:
Dr Thérèse Coffey (Conservative)
5 December 2016
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