Water: Standards
Commons · Question 97007 · Tabled 3 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Freddie van Mierlo
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2025 to Question 90952 on Bathing Water (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2025, if she can outline the (a) local and (b) national stakeh
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 9 Dec 2025
Defra recognise that there have been changes in how and where people use bathing waters since the Bathing Water Regulations were introduced in 2013. That is why we are taking forward a programme of reforms to introduce the first overhaul of the rules gove...