Written questions

Water: Standards

Commons · Question 19477 · Tabled 11 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 18 Dec 2024

Question

Asked by Nick Timothy

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to consult on the proposal in Wider Reform 1 to redefine multiple watercrafts and others as ‘bathers’.

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 18 Dec 2024

Defra and the Welsh Government are currently running a six-week consultation on proposed reforms to the Bathing Water Regulations 2013, which closes on 23 December. In this consultation, we are calling for evidence on a wider reform for potential future d...