Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 108249

Agriculture: Water

Tabled: 26 January 2026
Answered: 12 February 2026
Named Day

Question

Victoria Atkins

ConservativeLouth and Horncastle

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's White Paper entitled A New Vision for Water, published on 20 January 2026, what estimate she has made of the average annual cost of complying with th

Answer

Emma Hardy
An environmental permit would require regulated businesses to apply measures to reduce pollution. The cost of complying with a permit would depend on which pollution measures they would be required to adopt, which would depend largely on the type of farm ...

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