Question follow-through · 17735
Sewage: Cornwall
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many sewage discharges into (a) rivers and (b) seas have occurred so far this year in Cornwall.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many sewage discharges into (a) rivers and (b) seas have occurred so far this year in Cornwall.
5 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Environment Agency (EA) will publish 2024 Event Duration Monitoring data, showing how long and how often storm overflows have been used, in March 2025. The data for previous years is available online, here. From 1 January, companies will be required t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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