Sewage: Waste Disposal
Commons · Question 34201 · Tabled 26 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Ben Maguire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will take steps to enforce the responsibility of water companies to publish accessible real-time data on sewage released into (a) rivers, (b) seas and (c) other publi
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 6 Mar 2025
Since 1 January 2025, water companies are required to publish data related to discharges from all storm overflows within one hour of the discharge beginning. The Secretary of State has authorised Ofwat to carry out enforcement action for this duty, in acc...