Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 89500

Microplastics

Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 16 December 2025
Named Day

Question

Clive Lewis

LabourNorwich South

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to stop companies from using biobeads.

Answer

Emma Hardy
Polluting our waterways is unacceptable. It is right that Southern Water has taken responsibility for the incident at Camber Sands, East Sussex, caused by a failure of a screening filter at their Eastbourne Wastewater Treatment Works. Defra Ministers are ...

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