Sewage
Commons · Question 34008 · Tabled 26 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Helen Morgan
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what limits his Department plans to set on effluent released into waste water from commercial food waste extraction and drying systems.
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 2 Apr 2025
Trade effluent discharges to the public sewerage network are the responsibility of the discharging party to agree consent to discharge with the local sewerage undertaker. Under s.118 of the Water Industry Act 1991, the occupier of any trade premises in th...