Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 10064

Rivers: Sewage

Tabled: 21 October 2024

Answered: 28 October 2024

Question

Tim Farron

Liberal Democrat — Westmorland and Lonsdale

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take legislative steps to end the practice of operator self-monitoring, in the context of recent trends in the level of river pollution discharges.

Answer

Emma Hardy

The Water (Special Measures) Bill will introduce a requirement for water companies to publish information on discharges from emergency overflows in near real-time (within an hour of a discharge occurring). This requirement will be in addition to the duty ...

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