Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 83648

Rivers: Sewage

Tabled: 20 October 2025
Answered: 27 October 2025

Question

Helen Maguire

Liberal DemocratEpsom and Ewell

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to prevent illegal sewage dumping in chalk stream rivers.

Answer

Emma Hardy
Fixing the systemic issues in the water system is essential to addressing the multiple pressures facing chalk streams. Restoring these waterbodies to better ecological health is a core ambition of this Government’s overall programme of work to clean up ri...

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