Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 89977

Bathing Water (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2025

Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 19 November 2025

Question

Gideon Amos

Liberal DemocratTaunton and Wellington

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy that Core Reform 3 of the Bathing Water (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2025 will not be used for (a) the purposes of cost cutting and (b) to

Answer

Emma Hardy
Core Reform 3 introduces discretion to set more locally tailored bathing seasons and monitoring periods that better reflect bathing water usage. To amend a site’s bathing season, there would need to be a robust evidence base to support this action includi...

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