Question follow-through · 4001
Chemicals: Pollution Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of chemical pollutants in water bodies on human health and the environment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 21 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 4 Jun 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of chemical pollutants in water bodies on human health and the environment.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Environment Agency (EA) undertakes extensive environmental monitoring. This monitoring supports the assessment of both current water quality status and longer-term trends, including the identification of substances causing failures of environmental st...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Fishing Catches
18 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects to publish the Seabird Bycatch Action Plan for England and whether it will contain quantitative, time-bound targets for reducing bycatch.
Common Land: Dartmoor
23 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will hold discussions with Natural England on the implementation of the Fursdon Review Recommendation 27 on Dartmoor commons.
Eggs
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the resilience of the egg supply chain, including the role of domestic egg production capacity in maintaining food security.
Eggs
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of recent trends in the level of capital investment in the egg production sector, including in the renewal and replacement of poultry housing.
Eggs: Imports
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of changes in the volume of imported eggs and egg products on the competitiveness and long-term viability of UK egg prod