| Heading: |
Sewage |
| Question ID: |
1749939 |
| UIN: |
20080 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-12-13 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5158 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rupert Lowe
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Rupert Lowe
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department uses sewage to estimate population changes. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-30 |
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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 Twitter reference: |
Emma Hardy
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| Answer text: |
Defra does not routinely measure population changes and therefore does not use sewage monitoring for this purpose. Sewerage undertakers account for population changes in their business planning by using local Government growth plans and population data su... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |