Written questions

Sewage: North Cornwall

Commons · Question 252 · Tabled 17 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 25 Jul 2024

Question

Asked by Ben Maguire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce sewage discharges into (a) rivers in and (b) the sea off the coast of the North Cornwall constituency.

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 25 Jul 2024

The Governments new Water (Special Measures) Bill delivers on Labour’s manifesto commitment to put water companies under tough special measures by strengthening regulation to clean up our rivers, lakes and seas more broadly, lakes and seas. Further legisl...