Question follow-through · 119821
Swimming: South West
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support new bathing sites in the West of England.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support new bathing sites in the West of England.
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2026
Answer published
To designate a site as a bathing water, an application must be submitted to Defra. Applications for new bathing sites are driven by the public and put forward for consultation if certain criteria are met, which can be found online at gov.uk. We are curren...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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