| Heading: |
Rivers: Sewage |
| Question ID: |
1820478 |
| UIN: |
65652 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-07 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5336 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Helen Maguire
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| Asking Member handle: |
helenemaguire
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@helenemaguire
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce legally binding targets for the reduction of untreated sewage discharges into chalk streams. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-10 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4645 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Emma Hardy
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Emma Hardy
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| Answer text: |
Our Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan targets improvements at 75% of high-priority sites, including chalk streams. This ensures that they are prioritised for improvement from the £11 billion investment to upgrade nearly 3,000 storm overflows across... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |