Question follow-through · 128679
River Lune: Pollution Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons the Environment Agency is not measuring pollution, including polyaromatic hydrocarbons, from motorway outfalls into the River Lune at Tebay.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 21 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 27 Apr 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons the Environment Agency is not measuring pollution, including polyaromatic hydrocarbons, from motorway outfalls into the River Lune at Tebay.
23 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Apr 2026
Answer published
If the Environment Agency is notified of pollution in watercourses such as the river Lune, then this is dealt with as a pollution incident and investigated and /or attended on a risk basis. Regarding the Lune at Tebay, the Environment Agency is already ac...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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