Question follow-through · 36996
Sewage: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has issued recent enforcement actions against water companies for sewage discharges at (a)Charmouth West Stream and (b) Lyme Regis Church Cliff beach.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 18 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has issued recent enforcement actions against water companies for sewage discharges at (a)Charmouth West Stream and (b) Lyme Regis Church Cliff beach.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2025
Answer published
For too long, water companies have discharged unacceptable levels of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas. It is the responsibility of water companies to invest in infrastructure and other improvements to reduce untreated wastewater pollution incidents....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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