Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 46311

Sewage: Waste Disposal

Tabled: 17 April 2025
Answered: 29 April 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department’s policies of the Environment Agency’s 2024 Event Duration Monitoring dataset, published in March 2025.

Answer

Emma Hardy
For too long, water companies have discharged unacceptable levels of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas. The Environment Agency published its annual Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) data on 27 March 2025, which set out details of storm overflow spills ...
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