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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what regulations are in place to control the (a) sale and (b) use of fuels used in domestic heating and burning.

An extensive legal framework is in place to reduce emissions from domestic combustion.

The Air Quality (Domestic Solid Fuels Standards) (England) Regulations 2020 came into force in May 2021 and over two years phased out the sale of traditional house coal for domestic use, prevented the sale of small volumes of wet wood, and placed emissions standards on manufactured solid fuels. In January 2022, new Ecodesign requirements for stoves came into force.

Our Environmental Improvement Plan, published in January 2023, commits us to go even further in driving up stove and fuel standards.