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Air Pollution: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to open the Air Quality Funding Scheme for local authorities in 2025.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 24 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 26 Feb 2025
Answer: 3 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Local Government: Air Pollution · 25 Feb 2025

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Recorded timeline

24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to open the Air Quality Funding Scheme for local authorities in 2025.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Local Air Quality Grant is not opening for the 24/25 financial year. Any future funding schemes will be subject to The Government spending review processes.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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