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Water: Standards

Commons · Question 122998 · Tabled 23 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 26 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential implications for its policies of locally developed bathing water frameworks that differ from national and international s

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 26 Mar 2026

The Environment Agency has an ongoing statutory duty to monitor the water quality at designated bathing water sites in England in line with the Bathing Water Regulations 2013. I would encourage any local authority that is interested in developing a local ...