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Sulphur Dioxide Emissions

Volume 398: debated on Wednesday 29 January 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list UK sulphur dioxide emissions in each year since 1997. [94292]

The following table shows estimated UK emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2) from 1997 to 2000 (the latest year for which data are available). Data since 1970 on UK emissions of air pollutants, including sulphur dioxide, are published annually in the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI), which can be found at the NAEI website, http://www.naei.org.uk.

YearSO2 emission(thousands of tonnes)
19971,665
19981,588
19991,210
20001,165

Source:

National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory