Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 122998

Water: Standards

Tabled: 23 March 2026
Answered: 26 March 2026

Question

Martin Wrigley

Liberal DemocratNewton Abbot

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential implications for its policies of locally developed bathing water frameworks that differ from national and international s

Answer

Emma Hardy
The Environment Agency has an ongoing statutory duty to monitor the water quality at designated bathing water sites in England in line with the Bathing Water Regulations 2013. I would encourage any local authority that is interested in developing a local ...

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