Asked by: Andy Burnham (Labour - Leigh)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department plans to publish new measures to improve air quality as required by the High Court judgement of 2 November 2016; and what progress her Department has made on reviewing the case to make Greater Manchester a clean air zone.
Answered by Thérèse Coffey
The Government is considering next steps in light of both the High Court judgment and recent updates in data on emissions from diesel vehicles and we will set out further measures next year, including publishing a revised air quality plan by 24 April 2017 a final plan by 31 July 2017.
We are consulting on a draft Clean Air Zone Framework and on draft legislation to mandate five cities to establish a Clean Air Zone. Greater Manchester can introduce a Clean Air Zone should they wish to.
Asked by: Andy Burnham (Labour - Leigh)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many schools are located within (a) one mile and (b) five miles of the (i) Bury Whitefield Roadside and (ii) Manchester Piccadilly air quality monitoring sites.
Answered by Thérèse Coffey
Defra does not routinely hold information or data on schools located within close proximity to air quality monitoring sites.
However, Bury Metropolitan Borough Council and Manchester City Council have estimated the number of schools located within one and five miles of the Bury Whitefield Roadside and Manchester Piccadilly air quality monitoring sites.
There are 15 schools within one mile of both the Bury and Manchester Piccadilly sites. There are 193 within five miles of the Bury site and 361 of Manchester Piccadilly.
Asked by: Andy Burnham (Labour - Leigh)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people live within (a) one mile and (b) five miles of the (i) Bury Whitefield Roadside and (ii) Manchester Piccadilly air quality monitoring sites.
Answered by Thérèse Coffey
Defra does not routinely hold information or data on the number of people living within close proximity and around air quality monitoring sites.
However Bury Metropolitan Borough Council and Manchester City Council have estimated the number of people living within one and five miles of the Bury Whitefield Roadside and Manchester Piccadilly air quality monitoring sites.
They estimate there are 24,882 people living within a mile of the Bury site and 44,126 within a mile of the Manchester Piccadilly site. They also estimate there are 490,023 people living within five miles of the Bury site and 790,650 of the Manchester Piccadilly site.
Asked by: Andy Burnham (Labour - Leigh)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many measured exceedances of the annual mean air pollution objective for fine particles have there been in Greater Manchester in each year since 2009-10.
Answered by Thérèse Coffey
There have been no measured exceedances of the annual mean air pollution objective for fine particles in Greater Manchester since 2009-10.
Asked by: Andy Burnham (Labour - Leigh)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much air quality grant funding has been awarded from central government to each local authority in Greater Manchester in each year since 2009-10.
Answered by Thérèse Coffey
Since 2009-10, local authorities in Greater Manchester have received a total of £509,745 of central Government funding through the Air Quality Grant. The table below sets out the amount awarded to relevant local authorities by year.
Year | LA | Amount |
2009-10 | Greater Manchester Group | £ 83,785.00 |
2009-10 | Manchester City Council | £ 3,600.00 |
2009-10 | Salford City Council | £ 10,250.00 |
2009-10 | Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council | £ 7,000.00 |
2009-10 | Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council | £ 35,000.00 |
2010-11 | Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council | £ 8,200.00 |
2010-11 | Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council | £ 15,000.00 |
2011-12 | Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council | £ 50,950.00 |
2011-12 | Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council | £ 190,000.00 |
2012-13 | Salford City Council | £ 5,960.00 |
2015-16 | Greater Manchester Combined Authority | £ 100,000.00 |