Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 97007

Water: Standards

Tabled: 3 December 2025

Answered: 9 December 2025

Named Day

Question

Freddie van Mierlo

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2025 to Question 90952 on Bathing Water (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2025, if she can outline the (a) local and (b) national stakeh

Answer

Emma Hardy

Defra recognise that there have been changes in how and where people use bathing waters since the Bathing Water Regulations were introduced in 2013. That is why we are taking forward a programme of reforms to introduce the first overhaul of the rules gove...

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