PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Air Pollution: Monitoring (30 March 2017)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to introduce a national air quality monitoring system.
Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)
Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)
Answer
Defra currently supports a network of 270 monitoring sites in the UK, measuring concentrations of 13 pollutants (270 sites active as at 12 December 2016). The Environment Agency manages the UK's national monitoring sites on behalf of Defra and the Devolved Administrations..
Many local authorities also undertake monitoring separately for the purpose of Local Air Quality Management. The majority of local authority monitoring stations are not part of Defra’s national monitoring network as they do not meet the criteria set out in European legislation.
Further information and pollutant monitoring data is available on the UK Air website.
Answered by:
Dr Thérèse Coffey (Conservative)
18 April 2017
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