Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 62955

Rivers: Environment Protection

Tabled: 26 June 2025
Answered: 2 July 2025

Question

Tim Farron

Liberal DemocratWestmorland and Lonsdale

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to protect the ecological status chalk streams in legislation.

Answer

Emma Hardy
Cleaning up our waters, including iconic sites such as chalk streams is a top government priority. That is why on 23 October 2024, the Secretary of State announced the launch of an independent commission to fundamentally transform how our water system wor...

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