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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 98195, tabled on 5 January 2022

Question

Geraint Davies
Labour
Swansea West
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which measures in the National Air Pollution Control Programme, published March 2019, relating to the emission reduction commitments for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) have been implemented.

Answer

Jo Churchill
Conservative
Bury St Edmunds
Commons

Answered on

10 January 2022

The National Air Pollution Control Programme (NAPCP), published in March 2019, refers to legislation to prohibit the sale of the most polluting fuels used in domestic burning. The Air Quality (Domestic Solid Fuels Standards) (England) Regulations 2020 were made on 7 October 2020, and most measures came into force on 1 May 2021.

The NAPCP also refers to reducing PM2.5 levels. The Environment Act, which gained Royal Assent on 9 November 2021, establishes a duty to set a target on PM2.5.

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