Question follow-through · 23074
River Tone: Pollution Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will provide funding to (a) improve water quality in the river Tone in Somerset and (b) reduce pollution discharges (i) upstream of French Weir Bathing Water and (ii) downstream
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will provide funding to (a) improve water quality in the river Tone in Somerset and (b) reduce pollution discharges (i) upstream of French Weir Bathing Water and (ii) downstream
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jan 2025
Answer published
For too long, water companies have discharged unacceptable levels of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas. This Government is committed to holding water companies to account to protect the environment. Ofwat published their final determinations for Pric...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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