Air Pollution: Health Hazards

(asked on 25th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what sites (a) his Department and (b) Public Health England maintain to monitor the effects on (i) air quality and (ii) human health of emissions of (A) PM0.1, (B) PM 1 and (C) PM2.5.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 1st February 2019

The Department and Public Health England do not maintain sites monitoring the effects air pollutants on air quality or health.

The Environment Agency manages the United Kingdom’s national air quality monitoring sites on behalf of the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the devolved administrations.

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