A question on #Water #Pollution tabled by James MacCleary on 01-07-2025 has been answered by Mary Creagh.

Heading: Water: Pollution
Question ID: 1818492
UIN: 64318
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-07-01
Asking Member ID: 5265
Asking Member display name: James MacCleary
Asking Member handle: JamesMacCleary
Asking Member Twitter reference: @JamesMacCleary
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure (a) the timely availability of pollution data, (b) that water companies are held to account for sewage discharges and (c) that improvements to storm o
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Date answered: 2025-07-08
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Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 1579
Answering Member display name: Mary Creagh
Answering Member handle: marycreagh_
Answering Member Twitter reference: @marycreagh_
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Answer text: For too long, water companies have discharged unacceptable levels of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas. We are putting water companies under special measures through our landmark Water (Special Measures) Act. The Act has introduced new powers to ban ...
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Answering body ID: 13
Answering body name: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tweeted: true