Question follow-through · 16642
Water: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will provide adequate (a) funding and (b) resources to carry out year round testing for designated bathing water areas in the Newton Abbot constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 29 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will provide adequate (a) funding and (b) resources to carry out year round testing for designated bathing water areas in the Newton Abbot constituency.
29 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2024
Answer published
On 12 November, we launched a public consultation on proposed reforms to the Bathing Water Regulations 2013. A core proposal of this consultation is to move the fixed dates of the bathing season from the Regulations into guidance. This would provide the f...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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