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Water: Standards

Commons · Question 90952 · Tabled 13 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 20 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Freddie van Mierlo

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2025 to Question 88109 on Bathing Water Regulations 2013, what her planned timetable is for that policy development and research.

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 20 Nov 2025

DEFRA is engaged in a programme of work to ensure the Bathing Water (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2025 can be implemented effectively, including feasibility studies to support Core Reform 2 and a pre-implementation research project on Core R...