Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered on 8th May 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the social costs caused by (a) large particulates (PM10), (b) small particulates (PM2.5) and (c) nitrogen dioxide emitted to air in the UK by (i) domestic biomass generation of heat and (ii) biomass for power generation in the latest year for which figures are available.
DEFRA has not made any direct assessment of such social costs.
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