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Commons · Question 52410 · Tabled 14 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 5 Jun 2025

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Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on enforcing the mandatory adoption of sustainable drainage schemes (SuDS) through Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010.

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Answered by Emma Hardy, 5 Jun 2025

This Government is strongly committed to requiring standardised SuDS in new developments. These should be to designs that cope with changing climatic conditions as well as delivering wider water infrastructure benefits, reduce run off and help to improve ...