Question follow-through · 91323
Water: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to publish a review comparing UK bathing-water (a) monitoring and (b) classification systems with international best practice.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 17 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 24 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to publish a review comparing UK bathing-water (a) monitoring and (b) classification systems with international best practice.
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Nov 2025
Answer published
Existing practices for monitoring and classification in the UK mirror the European Commission’s Bathing Water Directive which is based on the World Health Organisation’s recommendations for management of recreational waters. Environment Agency (EA) monito...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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