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Sewage: West Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data his Department holds on sewage discharges into the sea in West Dorset constituency in each of the last three years.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
10 Sept 2024
Target answer date
12 Sept 2024
Answer
27 Sept 2024 · 17 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data his Department holds on sewage discharges into the sea in West Dorset constituency in each of the last three years.

  2. 12 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    Wessex Water and South West Water provide data on storm overflow discharges in near real time on their websites. The Environment Agency will publish the 2024 Event Duration Monitoring data, showing how long and how often storm overflows have been used, in...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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Coastal Erosion

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28 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage afforestation projects to (a) enhance biodiversity and (b) reduce carbon emissions.

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28 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to ensure that water companies do not allow storm sewage overflows to impact (a) rivers and (b) coastal areas in West Dorset constituency.

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Agriculture: West Dorset

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Flood Control: Rural Areas

1 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department plans to provide to help manage the increased flood risk for rural areas prone to (a) river and (b) surface flooding in the 2025-26 financial year.

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Plastics: Coastal Areas and Rural Areas

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