Question follow-through · 121498
Sewage: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of enforcement action taken against water and sewerage undertakers for breaches of environmental permits.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 23 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of enforcement action taken against water and sewerage undertakers for breaches of environmental permits.
19 Mar 2026
Target answer date
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23 Mar 2026
Answer published
We will not let companies get away with illegal activity and where breaches are found, the Environment Agency (EA) will not hesitate to hold companies to account. The Water (Special Measures) Act has provided the most significant increase in enforcement p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Climate Change: Nature Conservation
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