A question on #Sewage #WasteDisposal tabled by Rupert Lowe on 17-04-2025 has been answered by Emma Hardy.

Heading: Sewage: Waste Disposal
Question ID: 1794923
UIN: 46311
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-04-17
Asking Member ID: 5158
Asking Member display name: Rupert Lowe
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Asking Member Twitter reference: Rupert Lowe
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Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department’s policies of the Environment Agency’s 2024 Event Duration Monitoring dataset, published in March 2025.
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Date answered: 2025-04-29
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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: For too long, water companies have discharged unacceptable levels of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas. The Environment Agency published its annual Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) data on 27 March 2025, which set out details of storm overflow spills ...
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Answering body ID: 13
Answering body name: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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