Question follow-through · 47332
Quarrying: Air Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will consider reforming the monitoring system for PM10 emissions from quarries; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of doing so on public health.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will consider reforming the monitoring system for PM10 emissions from quarries; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of doing so on public health.
30 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
Particulate matter emissions from quarries are regulated under the Environmental Permitting Regulations (England and Wales) 2016, including through emission limits and monitoring requirements on total particulate matter. We will keep standards for PM10 em...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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