Barry Gardiner – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barry Gardiner on 2014-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many monitoring stations were in place and returning air quality data for NO2, PM2.5 and PM10 in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
Dan Rogerson
Defra operates an extensive monitoring network in order to assess air quality in the UK. The number of sites may vary year to year as sites are upgraded or replaced. A summary of the number of monitoring stations for each pollutant by year is provided below.
Year |
NO2 |
PM2.5 |
PM10 |
2010 |
117 |
78 |
68 |
2011 |
118 |
78 |
68 |
2012 |
121 |
80 |
69 |
2013 |
118 |
83 |
72 |
2014 |
115 |
80 |
70 |