Member

In theory, the EA’s permitting regime could specify what water companies and others should monitor at each authorised discharge point, regardless of whether it is a continuous or intermittent discharge. The need for this point-source monitoring should be informed by better overall environmental monitoring of water- courses, which would show where the problems potentially lie. I therefore press the Minister to consider this whole problem in a much more strategic way than this Bill allows and to come back to the House with proposals for systematic monitoring and subsequent action on these damaging emergent chemicals.