Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 121004

Rivers: Pollution Control

Tabled: 16 March 2026

Answered: 23 March 2026

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Question

Freddie van Mierlo

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies on pollutant reduction within river improvement programmes of the report by the UK Centre for Ecology and

Answer

Emma Hardy

In 2025, the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) published an independent review of the suitability of the Water Framework Directive ecological classification framework for measuring and assessing the health of the water environment. Among its sug...

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