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Sewage: West Dorset

Commons · Question 10208 · Tabled 21 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 24 Oct 2024

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Asked by Edward Morello

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department has provided to help tackle pollution caused by untreated sewage overflow to local authorities in West Dorset constituency in the 2024-25 financial year

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 24 Oct 2024

It is the responsibility of water companies to invest in infrastructure and other improvements to reduce untreated wastewater pollution incidents. Since 2021 Water Companies have invested in 65 schemes in the West Dorset constituency which includes 6 impr...