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1127793

registered interest
date	21/05/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Monitoring
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to improve the consistency of pollution monitoring throughout the UK.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	256944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>In England, the Environment Agency uses consistent methods as part of an agreed strategy to monitor pollution affecting air, land and water. Reviews are being conducted of air and water quality programmes, to improve consistency where it is required and provide the evidence needed to support environmental improvements.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 04/06/2019 10:05:27 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

860619

registered interest
date	12/03/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Monitoring
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to his Answer to of 30 January 2018 to Question 12548, on monitoring of PM1, if he will ensure that more sites in the Particulate Numbers and Concentrations Network monitor PMs of less than 2.5.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	131976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>Our air quality monitoring networks are kept under review to ensure they continue to deliver the UK’s requirements for reporting, evidence and supporting our policy needs. There are currently no plans to expand the particle numbers and concentrations network.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 15/03/2018 11:59:14 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

851523

registered interest
date	28/02/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Monitoring
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to make funding available for local authorities to monitor particulate matter PM2.5 and PM10.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	130286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities have a duty to review and assess air quality. They make decisions on local air quality monitoring and, take consideration of Defra’s Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) Technical Guidance in siting air quality monitors. Positioning of local monitors is expected to be in line with national and local priorities, which may include locations where there is high risk of public exposure to air pollutants. Local authorities in England operate over 700 local monitoring stations.</p><p> </p><p>Since it began in 1997, Defra’s air quality grant scheme has awarded over £55 million in funding, to a variety of projects to help local authorities make improvements to local air quality. For the 2017/18 round a total of at least £2 million is being made available to successful bidding local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 06/03/2018 11:12:33 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

843554

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Monitoring
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to extend the air pollution alert system to ensure that notifications about high pollution levels are disseminated as widely as possible.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	127895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Stockton North on 12 February 2018, PQ 126644 and 126645.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 26/02/2018 18:22:44 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

839036

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Monitoring
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve measurement of PM2.5 particles across the UK.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	127596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>Assessment of PM<sub>2.5 </sub>levels in the UK uses direct monitoring alongside air quality modelling. We have a network comprising 163 direct monitoring sites providing near-real-time data to our UK-AIR website: <a href="https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk</a>. Of these, 77 monitor PM<sub>2.5.</sub> Modelling of PM<sub>2.5</sub> is reviewed regularly to take account of changes in sources of emissions to ensure accurate measurement.</p><p> </p><p>Defra provides technical and policy guidance to local authorities to assist them in meeting their air quality management responsibilities including air quality monitoring and assessment. Defra also provides technical support to local authorities via a dedicated local air quality management Helpdesk (phone, email and webpage).</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 127597 question first answered 26/02/2018 13:14:58 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

839037

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Monitoring
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department will work with the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government to provide guidance to local councils on ensuring air quality monitors record fine particulate matter, PM2.5.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	127597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>Assessment of PM<sub>2.5 </sub>levels in the UK uses direct monitoring alongside air quality modelling. We have a network comprising 163 direct monitoring sites providing near-real-time data to our UK-AIR website: <a href="https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk</a>. Of these, 77 monitor PM<sub>2.5.</sub> Modelling of PM<sub>2.5</sub> is reviewed regularly to take account of changes in sources of emissions to ensure accurate measurement.</p><p> </p><p>Defra provides technical and policy guidance to local authorities to assist them in meeting their air quality management responsibilities including air quality monitoring and assessment. Defra also provides technical support to local authorities via a dedicated local air quality management Helpdesk (phone, email and webpage).</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 127596 question first answered 26/02/2018 13:14:58 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

833722

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Monitoring
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2017 to Question 118838, and with reference to the report of the Air Quality Expert Group on fine particulate matter in the UK of December 2012, if he will take steps to monitor emissions of particulate matter that is less than 2.5 microns in diameter.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	125481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>Our existing Particle Numbers and Concentrations Network measures characteristics of particles smaller than PM<sub>2.5</sub> such as particle number and particle count and comprises a range of measurements across six different locations in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the network can be found on our website at: <a href="https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/networks/network-info?view=particle" target="_blank">https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/networks/network-info?view=particle</a></p><p> </p><p>This network is used to provide insight into emissions and formation of particles and is operated alongside our extensive PM<sub>2.5</sub> mass measurements made at 77 locations in the UK, as referred to in my previous answer of 19 December [Question 118838].</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 06/02/2018 09:55:33 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

720431

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Monitoring
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the capacity of local authorities to monitor air quality (a) at present and (b) after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	70781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>Defra has made no specific assessment of the capacity of local authorities to monitor air quality at present or after the UK leaves the EU.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 20/04/2017 16:22:58 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

715654

registered interest
date	30/03/2017
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Monitoring
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	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.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	70136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>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..</p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>Further information and pollutant monitoring data is available on the <a href="https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/" target="_blank">UK Air website</a>.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 18/04/2017 14:54:09 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

693249

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Monitoring
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to issue new guidance to local authority air quality monitoring units after the UK exits the EU.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	George Kerevan
uin	908921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>Defra will continue to provide technical and policy guidance to local authorities to assist them in meeting their air quality management responsibilities, including air quality monitoring. This guidance is kept under review and was last updated last year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 908925 908929 question first answered 27/02/2017 11:58:35 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4416 label Biography information for George Kerevan