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Rivers: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to improve the water quality of chalk streams.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 12 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 19 Dec 2024
Answer: 19 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

12 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to improve the water quality of chalk streams.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
Chalk streams are one of the rarest freshwater habitats on Earth and England is home to 85% of them. The Government is committed to the protection and restoration of our cherished chalk streams. The best way to achieve this is by fixing the framework for ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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