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Sewage: Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure water companies are held to account for sewage discharges.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
17 Dec 2025
Answer
6 Jan 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure water companies are held to account for sewage discharges.

  2. 17 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    This Government has been clear there is no excuse for poor performance, and we will not look the other way while companies routinely fail to meet agreed standards. Water companies must take seriously their role in meeting the public and regulators expecta...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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