Question follow-through · 2165
Sewage: Pollution Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce sewage discharges by water companies into waterways.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 29 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 3 Sept 2024 · 36 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
29 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce sewage discharges by water companies into waterways.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Secretary of State recently met with water company bosses to make it clear that water firms will be held accountable for their performance for customers and the environment. During the meeting, water bosses signed up to the government’s initial packag...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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