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Noise: Pollution

Commons · Question 77606 · Tabled 16 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 5 Jan 2026

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Asked by Munira Wilson

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department’s policies of the report by the European Environmental Agency Report entitled Environmental noise in Europe 2025, pu

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 5 Jan 2026

Since leaving the EU, UK Governments have continued to undertake the noise mapping functions summarised for EU countries in this report. This is required by the Environmental Noise Regulations individually enacted into law by England, Wales, Scotland and ...