HC Deb 20 May 2004 vol 421 c1101W
Tom Brake

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural affairs if she will make a statement on(a) urban and (b) rural air quality in 2003. [174406]

Margaret Beckett

The Government's annual Air Quality Headline Indicator, published on 28 April 2004, estimates

  1. (a) an areas in 2003, air pollution was recorded as moderate or higher on 50 days on average per site, compared with 20 days in 2002
  2. (b) In rural areas, the figure for 2003 was 61 days on average per site, compared with 30 in 2002.

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