Question follow-through · 15282

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to hold water companies to account for non-compliance with sewage management rules.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 20 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 25 Nov 2024
Answer: 2 Dec 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

20 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to hold water companies to account for non-compliance with sewage management rules.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
We will not let companies get away with illegal activity and where breaches are found, the Environment Agency (EA) will not hesitate to hold companies to account. From 1 January 2025, water companies will be required to publish data related to discharges ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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