Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many odour complaints the Environment Agency received about each of the sites it regulates in each month since January 2019.
The Environment Agency receives reports of odour from members of the public via the National Pollution Reporting Hotline. The numbers in the table below represent all reports received since January 2019 from members of the public across England, rather than those that have been assessed by a local Environment Agency officer and confirmed to be correctly attributed to a site that the Environment Agency regulates. The Environment Agency does not collate figures centrally for that number.
Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year Totals |
2019 | 883 | 1,311 | 755 | 1,122 | 1,223 | 1,265 | 2,267 | 2,219 | 1,571 | 1,034 | 1,093 | 1,867 | 16,610 |
2020 | 4,160 | 2,181 | 1,474 | 1,468 | 1,212 | 1,755 | 1,673 | 1,854 | 2,223 | 992 | NA | NA | 18,992 |