Question follow-through · 900430
Rivers: Standards
What steps he is taking to improve the water quality of rivers.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 5 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 13 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Sept 2024
Question tabled
What steps he is taking to improve the water quality of rivers.
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Sept 2024
Answer published
After 14 years of Conservative failure, we share the public’s fury at the levels of sewage being released into our rivers, lakes and seas.That is why this Government has introduced legislation to put the water companies under special measures to end their...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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