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Written Question
Housing: Formaldehyde
Thursday 19th June 2014

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson (Labour (Co-op) - Kilmarnock and Loudoun)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the efficacy of the published acceptable limits for formaldehyde in the air within a domestic dwelling.

Answered by Dan Rogerson

Defra is not responsible for air quality policy within domestic buildings and so has made no such assessment.