Question follow-through · 10064

Rivers: Sewage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take legislative steps to end the practice of operator self-monitoring, in the context of recent trends in the level of river pollution discharges.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 21 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 23 Oct 2024
Answer: 28 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

21 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take legislative steps to end the practice of operator self-monitoring, in the context of recent trends in the level of river pollution discharges.
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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28 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Water (Special Measures) Bill will introduce a requirement for water companies to publish information on discharges from emergency overflows in near real-time (within an hour of a discharge occurring). This requirement will be in addition to the duty ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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