Written questions

Sewage and Water Companies: Accountability

Lords · Question HL3979 · Tabled 13 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 20 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Baroness Boycott

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Hayman of Ullock on 19 December 2024 (HL3060), what remedy the public currently has against a failure by a water company to proactively publish the operational sewage treatment and

Answer

Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock, 20 Jan 2025

The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIRs) require public authorities - including water companies - to disclose environmental information proactively. This includes data or summaries of data derived from the monitoring of activities affecting, ...