Nitrogen Oxides Susan Kramer To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at which locations in England levels of nitrogen oxide (a) exceed 40 micro gm-3 nitrogen oxide annually and (b) exceed 200 micro gm-3 nitrogen oxide hourly more than 18 times per year. Jim Fitzpatrick Under EU legislation, the UK is required to assess ambient air for levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and to report to the European Commission on an annual basis. Detailed reports on the assessments are available from the air quality archive at: www.airquality.co.uk For the purpose of implementing EU legislation, the UK is divided up into 43 agglomeration zones (areas with a contiguous population of over 250,000 as specified by the air quality directives) and non-agglomeration zones. There are 28 agglomeration zones and 15 non-agglomeration zones. There are a number of locations within England where: (1) annual mean concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are in excess of 40 microgrammes/m3; and/or (2) there are more than 18 occurrences of hourly mean NO2 >200 microgrammes/m3 in a year. The locations where points 1 and/or 2 apply have been identified are in the following tables, with reference to both monitored (measured) and modelled (predicted) NO2 data. Monitoring data for 2008 are given in table 1. The modelling assessment for 2008 is not due to be completed until the end of the summer, so 2007 results are given in table 2. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Site name/location |Site type |Annual mean NO2 (microgrammes/m3)|Number hours NO2> 200 microgrammes/m3| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Liverpool Queen's Drive|Roadside |40 |6 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |London Westminster |Urban background|40 |1 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Cambridge Roadside |Roadside |42 |0 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Newcastle Cradlewell |Roadside |42 |0 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Manchester Piccadilly |Urban centre |43 |12 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |London Hillingdon |Suburban |51 |1 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Oxford Centre Roadside |Roadside |51 |3 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |London Bloomsbury |Urban centre |55 |0 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bristol Old Market |Roadside |62 |5 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Tower Hamlets |Roadside |63 |0 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bath Roadside |Roadside |65 |10 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |London Cromwell Road 2 |Roadside |67 |1 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bury Roadside |Roadside |69 |4 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Camden Kerbside |Kerbside |76 |72 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |London Marylebone Road |Kerbside |115 |822 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Zone/agglomeration |Road length/km where annual mean NO2 >40 microgrammes/m3 (roadside locations)|Area/km2 where annual mean NO2 > 40 microgrammes/m3 (urban background locations)| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Greater London Urban Area |1,600 |162 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |West Midlands Urban Area |385 |5 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Greater Manchester Urban Area |426 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |West Yorkshire Urban Area |162 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Tyneside |76 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Liverpool Urban Area |130 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Sheffield Urban Area |105 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Nottingham Urban Area |53 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Bristol Urban Area |42 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton|7 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Leicester Urban Area |52 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Portsmouth Urban Area |24 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Teesside Urban Area |18 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |The Potteries |34 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Bournemouth Urban Area |11 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Reading/Wokingham Urban Area |19 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Coventry/Bedworth |17 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Kingston upon Hull |32 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Southampton Urban Area |23 |1 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Birkenhead Urban Area |17 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Southend Urban Area |11 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Preston Urban Area |6 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Eastern |131 |6 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |South West |77 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |South East |197 |3 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |East Midlands |104 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |North West and Merseyside |279 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Yorkshire and Humberside |260 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |West Midlands |90 |— | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |North East |69 |— | 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