Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 20080

Sewage

Tabled: 13 December 2024

Answered: 30 December 2024

Question

Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department uses sewage to estimate population changes.

Answer

Emma Hardy

Defra does not routinely measure population changes and therefore does not use sewage monitoring for this purpose. Sewerage undertakers account for population changes in their business planning by using local Government growth plans and population data su...

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