Catherine Fookes

Catherine Fookes

Labour — Monmouthshire

Speaking in the House of Commons on 15 January 2025

Debate

Rivers, Lakes and Seas: Water Quality

Contribution

I agree entirely. The Government’s mission is growth. We need to see the cleaning-up of our waterways as an integral part of our growth mission. We know that tackling diffuse pollution from agriculture will be a hard nut to crack, with farmers already under pressure, but we have examples of good practice in the Wye. For example, Avara is already shipping out 75% of the chicken waste from its Herefordshire chicken farms along the Wye. That is to be welcomed, but it does not solve the long-term problems of too much phosphate in our rivers.

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