Simon Jupp straining to get answers.
But the answers to his questions are “unilluminating”, in fact one might call them rather bog standard. – Owl
Simon Jupp Conservative, East Devon
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the reporting of storm overflows in real time will be (a) consistent, (b) transparent, (c) accessible and (d) readily understood by the public.
Rebecca Pow The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Environment Act places new monitoring duties on the water industry to significantly improve transparency. It requires companies to make discharge data available in near real time to the public and to monitor water quality upstream and downstream of their assets.