Question follow-through · 34547
Housing: Air Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to mitigate the potential impact of housebuilding on air quality.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 27 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 6 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
27 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to mitigate the potential impact of housebuilding on air quality.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Mar 2025
Answer published
National planning policy sets out the appropriate consideration of air quality both in individual planning decisions and when developing Local Plans. In addition, Defra are developing new guidance on how the Environment Act 2021 air quality targets should...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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