Question follow-through · 18950

Planning Permission: Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the requirements set out in the interim planning guidance on the consideration of the Environment Act PM2.5 targets in planning

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
16 Dec 2024
Answer
19 Dec 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Environment and energy

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the requirements set out in the interim planning guidance on the consideration of the Environment Act PM2.5 targets in planning

  2. 16 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The interim planning guidance is expected to have minimal impact on the viability and cost of new developments. It is interim guidance whilst Defra develops substantive technical guidance, and as such an assessment is not required.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Nature Conservation: EU Law

11 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to (a) amend and (b) repeal assimilated EU law on the Habitats Directive on (i) newts and (ii) other protected species.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Property Development: Air Pollution

13 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 18950 on Planning Permission: Air Pollution, if he will make an estimate of the average additional cost resulting from that inter

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Rivers: Environment Protection

13 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 13 October 2023 to Question 201037 on Rivers: Environment Protection, what steps his Department has taken to support the implementation of the Chalk Str

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Litter: Fines

14 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2024 to Question 14343 on Litter, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the compliance of (a) local authorities and (b) outsourced comp

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Property Development: Newts

27 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to paragraphs 17 and 60 of the policy paper entitled Planning Reform Working Paper: Development and Nature Recovery, published on 15 December 2024, what assessment his D

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Domestic Waste: Recycling and Waste Disposal

30 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department issues guidance on the frequency of household rubbish and recycling collections.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Planning Permission: Air Pollution

21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 20 January 2025, to Question 23647, on Planning Permission: Air Pollution, for what reason the interim guidance was approved without an (a) public sector equa

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Sewage and Water

21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has commissioned research on the level of (a) water usage and (b) waste water produced in water company areas.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Sewers

5 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2025 to Question 32543 on Sewers, whether the implementation of SuDS will be (a) subject to the 10 unit threshold previously proposed and (b) not

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Property Development: Air Pollution

5 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answers of 14 February 2025 to Question (a) 29078 and (b) 29080 on Property Development: Air Pollution, whether air quality assessments for developments subject to an E

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil

5 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 September 2024 to Question 4992 on Greenpeace, whether his Department engages with (a) Just Stop Oil and (b) Extinction Rebellion.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Waste Disposal: Local Government

5 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 29081 on Waste Disposal: Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of gate fees on local authorities'