Question follow-through · 2585
Water: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure water quality monitoring data is published all year round.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 5 Sept 2024 · 37 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure water quality monitoring data is published all year round.
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Environment Act places monitoring duties on the water industry to improve transparency and reduce harm from sewage discharges. As outlined in Section 82, the Continuous Water Quality Monitoring programme will require water companies to continuously me...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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