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Sewage: Waste Disposal

Commons · Question 25483 · Tabled 21 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 28 Jan 2025

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Asked by Chris Coghlan

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department (a) monitors and (b) tracks sewage discharge into (i) rivers and (ii) seas by (A) location and (B) water company.

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 28 Jan 2025

Since 01 January 2025, water companies are required to publish data related to discharges from all storm overflows within one hour of the discharge beginning (under section 141DA of the Water Industry Act 1991 as inserted by section 81 of the Environment ...