Question follow-through · 62357
Water: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many bathing waters were classified as poor in each of the last ten years, and what estimate his Department has made of the potential impact on domestic tourism trends.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many bathing waters were classified as poor in each of the last ten years, and what estimate his Department has made of the potential impact on domestic tourism trends.
26 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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7 Jul 2025
Answer published
The following table shows the number of bathing waters classified as poor over the previous 10 years. Year Number of bathing waters classified as poor and notes. 201512201662017720189201972020Classifications were not produced in 2020 due to the pandemic20...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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