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Birmingham New Street Station: Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps Network Rail takes to monitor air quality at Birmingham New Street station.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
21 Feb 2025
Target answer date
25 Feb 2025
Answer
3 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps Network Rail takes to monitor air quality at Birmingham New Street station.

  2. 25 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    Network Rail monitors air quality at Birmingham New Street station as part of a £4.5 million air quality monitoring network, which is funded by the Department for Transport and managed by the Rail Safety and Standards Board. The network, which began opera...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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