Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 45139
Microplastics: Drinking Water
Tabled: 8 April 2025
Answered: 24 April 2025
Question
Carla Lockhart
Democratic Unionist Party — Upper Bann
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the prevalence of microplastics in UK drinking water sources; and what steps he has taken to regulate and reduce microplastic pollutio
Answer
Emma HardyDrinking water quality is a devolved matter and therefore I can only respond in relation to England. The Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) has published two research projects on microplastics in drinking water – one in January 2019 reviewing the potential...
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