There are now 555 air quality monitors across the country, but some say they aren't good enough.
By Matt WallElla Adoo-Kissi-Debrah was just nine-years-old when she suffered a fatal asthma attack on 15 February 2013.
The Deputy Coroner Philip Barlow concluded that "air pollution was a significant contributory factor to both the induction and exacerbations of her asthma", and that "delay in reducing the levels of atmospheric air pollution is the cause of avoidable deaths". "We have good measurement networks for some pollutants but not for others," he says. "For example, the volume of PM2.5 is quite easy and cheap to measure, but if you want to know what it's actually made up of - the volatile organic compounds like chemicals from glues or paints, for example - you need a much more expensive machine costing around £100,000.
Defra says in response that it is "investing over £10m to at least double the size of our fine particulate matter monitoring network". It adds: "This will support us to deliver further policy interventions to tackle PM2.5 and meet our stretching new targets set for this harmful pollutant under the Environment Act.
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