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Shipping: Exhaust Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of emissions of nitrogen dioxide from ships at English ports on the annual mean concentration limits set out in the Air Quality St

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
29 Oct 2024
Target answer date
31 Oct 2024
Answer
5 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of emissions of nitrogen dioxide from ships at English ports on the annual mean concentration limits set out in the Air Quality St

  2. 31 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    Domestic shipping contributed 11% to total UK nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions in 2022. The Air Quality Plan for NO2 addresses the primary cause of exceedances of the concentration limits set by the Air Quality Standards Regulations 2010 (AQSR): emissions...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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