Question follow-through · 20483
Sewage: Pollution Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to tackle unlawful discharges of sewage by water companies into waterways in Surrey.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 30 Dec 2024 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to tackle unlawful discharges of sewage by water companies into waterways in Surrey.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Dec 2024
Answer published
For too long, water companies have discharged record levels of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas. That is why we are placing water companies under special measures through the Water (Special Measures) Bill, which will strengthen regulation, including...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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