To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of the report by the European Commission entitled Study to support the impact assessment for a revision of the EU Ambient Air Quality Directives and that report's appendix, published on 26 October 2022.
Answered on
19 December 2022
We have noted the proposals set out by the EU Commission, with whom we work closely through the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. These proposals will be subject to negotiation between Member States in EU Council.
The UK remains firmly committed to reducing air pollution on a national scale and we are legally required to set domestic targets that we can achieve. We have worked with internationally recognised experts to deliver the evidence to inform our target setting, and we are now setting targets for PM2.5 that are stretching but specific to our national circumstances.