Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 68849

Swimming: Water

Tabled: 17 July 2025
Answered: 22 July 2025
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Question

Freddie van Mierlo

Liberal DemocratHenley and Thame

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled Designate a bathing water: guidance on how to apply, updated on 15 May 2025, for what reason applications cannot include organised

Answer

Emma Hardy
As per the criteria set out on GOV.UK, for a site to be eligible for designation as a bathing water, it must be used by an average of at least 100 bathers a day during the bathing season (15 May to 30 September). User surveys must be taken at a site to ev...

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