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
Labour — Stockport
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 HardyUnder 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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