Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 56362

Drinking Water: Standards

Tabled: 2 June 2025
Answered: 10 June 2025

Question

Navendu Mishra

LabourStockport

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential (a) impact of the AUK1 specification for toilet backflow protection on the quality of drinking water and (b) merits of formally

Answer

Emma Hardy
Under the previous Government, a small number of cases of contamination of drinking water have been discovered in which water from toilet cisterns re-entered (or backflowed into) a building’s drinking water system. The water industry and the Bathroom Manu...

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