Question follow-through · 122979
Sewage: Rivers
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to eliminate sewage overflow releases into (a) the River Loddon and (b) other protected chalk streams.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 23 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 30 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to eliminate sewage overflow releases into (a) the River Loddon and (b) other protected chalk streams.
25 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Mar 2026
Answer published
Through the Water Industry National Environment Programme, the Environment Agency (EA) is driving improvements at sewage treatment works including in the Loddon catchment. These include upgrades to deliver against the Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction P...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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