Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 86948

Water Companies: Standards

Tabled: 30 October 2025
Answered: 27 November 2025
Named Day

Question

Seamus Logan

Scottish National PartyAberdeenshire North and Moray East

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure the accuracy of data used by her Department, in the context of the letter entitled Statements on Water Quality by Professor Dame Carol Propper, Chair

Answer

Emma Hardy
The accuracy of data and statistics are crucial for the development and monitoring of Defra policies, and crucial for ensuring public trust in those statistics. All Official Statistics in Defra are therefore produced in line with the UK Statistics Authori...

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