Question follow-through · 116850
Water: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential benefits of amending the Bathing Water regulations to include a wider range of recreational users.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 2 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential benefits of amending the Bathing Water regulations to include a wider range of recreational users.
4 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Mar 2026
Answer published
In March 2025 the Government published its response to a consultation on amending the Bathing Water 2013 Regulations. In this, the Government noted the support for expanding the definition of a bather to include other recreational water users. Work has be...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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