Call for evidence outcome

Air quality: domestic burning of house coal, smokeless coal, manufactured solid fuels and wet wood - call for evidence

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 30 January 2018
• Last updated: 23 October 2018 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This call for evidence has closed

Detail of outcome

We received 245 responses to this call for evidence.

We’ve used these responses to inform our draft clean air strategy and further consultation on cleaner domestic burning of solid fuel and wood.

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Original call for evidence

Summary

Seeking evidence on the use of solid fuels for domestic heating as we seek to help householders make cleaner choices for heating their homes efficiently and reduce air pollution.

This call for evidence was held on another website.

This call for evidence ran from
30 January 2018 to 11:45pm on 27 February 2018

Call for evidence description

We are seeking evidence and data on the use of solid fuels such as house coal, smokeless coal, manufactured solid fuels and wet wood for domestic heating.

We are interested in the effect on householders of shifting from burning the more polluting fuels such as house coal and wet wood, towards less polluting fuels such as low sulphur smokeless fuels and dry wood.

We are also interested in the effect on businesses, for example on those selling stoves, fuels or providing maintenance services for whom domestic burning forms an integral part of their business.

Your responses will feed into the government’s Clean Air Strategy which will be published for consultation in 2018. This will set out how we will work towards our international commitments and continue to deliver air quality improvements in the UK.

Published 30 January 2018
Last updated 23 October 2018 + show all updates

1. 23 October 2018

   Added a note on what we did with the responses to this call for evidence.

2. 30 January 2018

   First published.