Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 182819

Sewage: Waste Disposal

Tabled: 26 April 2023
Answered: 4 May 2023

Question

Tim Farron

Liberal DemocratWestmorland and Lonsdale

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is planning to take steps to hold water companies to account by publishing wastewater discharge volumes.

Answer

Water and sewerage companies have published Event and Duration Monitoring (EDM) data of sewage discharges annually since 2020 that can be found here.