Question follow-through · 23100
Air Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2024 to Question 7788 on Air Pollution, if his Department will take steps to amend clean air targets to bring the UK in line with the European Unio
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Written Questions · 21 Feb 2025
- Pesticides · 6 Mar 2025
- Air Pollution: Public Consultation · 8 Apr 2025
- Air Pollution: Warnings · 30 May 2025
- Air Pollution: Warnings · 30 May 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2024 to Question 7788 on Air Pollution, if his Department will take steps to amend clean air targets to bring the UK in line with the European Unio
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to cleaning up our air and protecting the public from the harm of pollution. We recognise the importance of ambitious yet achievable air quality targets, supported by robust delivery plans, which is why the Government has launc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Written Questions
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to answer Question 23103 on Air Pollution, published on 9 January 2025.
Pesticides
6 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October 2024 to Question 10174 on Pesticides, when he plans to publish the National Action Plan on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides.
Air Pollution: Public Consultation
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to monitor the effective implementation of Government consultation principles on the needs of people affected by air pollution.
Air Pollution: Warnings
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2025 to Question 39813 on Air Pollution, whether the discussions his Department is having with the Met Office on areas for improvement includes the A
Air Pollution: Warnings
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people who do not (a) sign up to receive alerts and (b) actively check the UK-AIR website are alerted to high air pollution even
Air Pollution: Warnings
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will include PM2.5 in the UK Air quality alerts.
Air Pollution: Warnings
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many air pollution alerts were issued between March 2024 and March 2025 by his Department's UK-AIR alerts when thresholds within Air Quality Standards Regulations (2010) were excee
Air Pollution: Warnings
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people in the UK have signed up to receive air pollution alerts from UK-AIR; and what mechanisms he is using to monitor the effectiveness of the air quality alert system at (a
Smoke Control Areas
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the (a) powers and (b) funding available to local authorities to enforce smoke control areas.
Controlled Burning: Pollution Control
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of increasing the powers of local authorities to (a) monitor and (b) take steps to help tackle (i) air pollu
Controlled Burning: Codes of Practice
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2025 to Question 29795 on Moorland and Peatlands: Controlled Burning, whether she expects the new Heather and Grass Management Code to be implemen
Radioactive Materials: Shipping
31 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to (a) recover and (b) salvage any consignment of radioactive material in the event of the sinking of a vessel carrying radioactive cargo.