Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 98035

Roads: Pollution Control

Tabled: 8 December 2025
Answered: 16 December 2025

Question

Brian Mathew

Liberal DemocratMelksham and Devizes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her department monitors the discharge of highway runoff entering rivers along the network.

Answer

Simon Lightwood
National Highways carries out targeted monitoring at key locations on the strategic road network and is working with the Environment Agency to develop a further monitoring strategy. National Highways also has its 2030 Water Quality Plan setting out what i...

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