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Commons · Question 79962 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 20 Oct 2025

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Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2025 to Question 52410 on Sewers, when she plans to commence Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010.

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Answered by Emma Hardy, 20 Oct 2025

This Government is strongly committed to requiring standardised SuDS in new developments. We believe that these outcomes can be achieved through either improving the current planning led approach using powers now available or commencing Schedule 3 to the ...