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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of acid rain.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of acid rain.
The most recent assessment of the trends in acid deposition was published in the Air Pollution Trends Report 2024.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what monitoring networks her Department supports to measure acid deposition.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what monitoring networks her Department supports to measure acid deposition.
The Precipitation Network (Precip-Net) measures the chemical composition of rainwater at 48 UK sites. Acid air pollutants measured include ammonium, nitrates and sulphates. More information can be found here.
It is part of the umbrella UKEAP (UK Eutrophying and Acidifying Pollutants) Network which also measures airborne concentrations of pollutants that lead to acidification and nitrogen deposition.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure compliance with international agreements on reducing transboundary air pollution contributing to acid rain.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure compliance with international agreements on reducing transboundary air pollution contributing to acid rain.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a Party to the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution. We are fully compliant with our international commitments to reduce pollutants causing acid rain. The Government is committed to continuing cooperation with our neighbours to reduce transboundary air pollution and protect the public from the harm of pollution. The UK is playing an active role in ongoing negotiations to revise the 2012 amended Gothenburg Protocol, under the Convention.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the causes of acid rain.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the causes of acid rain.
Ammonia, NOx and sulphur were the main acidifying pollutants deposited onto UK woodland in 2021. Defra has published guidance and advice through Catchment Sensitive Farming on practical actions farmers can take to reduce emissions. Grant support has also been provided to help farmers invest in equipment, such as low emission slurry spreaders, that will reduce ammonia emissions.
The Government has legally binding targets under the National Emission Ceilings Regulations 2018 to reduce emissions of harmful air pollutants such as ammonia and nitrogen oxides that contribute to nitrogen deposition which can negatively impact biodiversity in sensitive habitats.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the levels of acid rain were in each year for which data is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the levels of acid rain were in each year for which data is available.
Monitored levels of acid rain are available on the Government's air quality data website:
http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/
I have also placed in the House Library a copy of the results for all currently operating acid deposition monitoring sites and, where site moves have been necessary for operational reasons, the predecessor site.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent assessment his Department has made of the (a) effects of acid rain and (b) trends in those effects in (i) the UK and (ii) internationally.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent assessment his Department has made of the (a) effects of acid rain and (b) trends in those effects in (i) the UK and (ii) internationally.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps the Government are taking to tackle acid rain.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps the Government are taking to tackle acid rain.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when his Department's National Expert Group on Transboundary Air Pollution will publish its report into acidification, eutrophication and ground-level ozone in the UK. - Includes figures and ref to copy of report in the Library and to...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when his Department's National Expert Group on Transboundary Air Pollution will publish its report into acidification, eutrophication and ground-level ozone in the UK. - Includes figures and ref to copy of report in the Library and to...