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Local authorities must monitor and improve air quality to meet objectives. This briefing gives an overview of the local air quality management regime.
Local authorities must monitor and improve air quality to meet objectives. This briefing gives an overview of the local air quality management regime.
Air pollution is the greatest UK environmental public health threat. This POSTnote updates the 2014 POSTnote on ambient air quality (PN 458) and describes air pollutants, their health impacts and measures to mitigate poor air quality.
Air pollution is the greatest UK environmental public health threat. This POSTnote updates the 2014 POSTnote on ambient air quality (PN 458) and describes air pollutants, their health impacts and measures to mitigate poor air quality.
The Environment Bill 2019 was announced in the Queen’s Speech on 14 October 2019. First Reading was on 15 October 2019. This briefing paper sets out the background to the Bill, reaction to it and its main provisions. This Bill fell at dissolution prior to the General Election in 2019 and is no longer current.
The Environment Bill 2019 was announced in the Queen’s Speech on 14 October 2019. First Reading was on 15 October 2019. This briefing paper sets out the background to the Bill, reaction to it and its main provisions. This Bill fell at dissolution prior to the General Election in 2019...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which local authorities had air quality management areas (AQMA) as of July 2017; what the name and description is of each AQMA; when each AQMA was declared and amended; and for what pollutant that AQMA has been declared.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which local authorities had air quality management areas (AQMA) as of July 2017; what the name and description is of each AQMA; when each AQMA was declared and amended; and for what pollutant that AQMA has been declared.
As of July this year, 278 local authorities (71% of those in the UK) had one or more air quality management areas (AQMAs) declared. Details of the current AQMAs declared by local authorities, including their names, description, when they were declared and amended and the relevant pollutant for which they were declared are provided on the UK-AIR website: https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/aqma/list.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff of her Department work on Local Air Quality Management support matters.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff of her Department work on Local Air Quality Management support matters.
As of 13 September this year there were five staff working on local air quality management in Defra. The Environment Agency also has a team of two people in its Local Authority Unit who provide technical advice to local authority environmental regulators and an environmental permitting Helpdesk service for local authorities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the use of air quality management areas by local authorities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the use of air quality management areas by local authorities.
Air quality has improved significantly in recent decades and we are working at local, national and international levels to continue those improvements. The UK currently meets legal limits for almost all pollutants; however, reducing levels for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) remains the most challenging.
Local authorities (LAs) have opportunities to improve air quality for the protection of public health and the environment through decisions they make on land use planning, permitting, roads and air quality management areas (AQMAs).
Across the UK, 259 LAs declared 715 AQMAs since 1999. Most AQMAs in the UK are in urban areas and have been established to address the contribution to air pollution from traffic emissions of NO2 or particulate matter (PM10). Details of the current AQMAs declared by LAs, broken down by region and pollutant, are set out in the table below.
Region | Total LAs | Number of LAs with AQMAs | For NO2 | For PM10 | For SO2 |
England (outside London) | 294 | 193 | 497 | 38 | 6 |
London | 33 | 33 | 33 | 29 | 0 |
Scotland | 32 | 14 | 25 | 21 | 1 |
Wales | 22 | 10 | 37 | 1 | 0 |
N. Ireland | 11 | 9 | 20 | 7 | 0 |
TOTAL | 393 | 259 | 612 | 96 | 7 |