Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 68034

Sewers: Urban Areas

Tabled: 15 July 2025

Answered: 21 July 2025

Named Day

Question

Alistair Strathern

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of producing standards on implementing sustainable urban drainage for (a) landowners, (b) local authorities

Answer

Emma Hardy

In June of this year, the Government introduced new national standards making clear that sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) should be designed to cope with changing climatic conditions as well as delivering wider water infrastructure benefits in the form...

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