Baroness Parminter: ...be wonderful to be able to say that this amendment has been supported on a day when the water companies have said, “Mea culpa”, said sorry for the appalling way that they have handled our sewage problems, and promised that they will put £10 billion-worth of new investment into this area. This would ensure that we get the win-win, both to overcome some of our problems with building...
Lord Randall of Uxbridge: ...to it. With that, I beg leave to withdraw my amendment. Amendment 387 withdrawn. Amendments 388 and 389 not moved. Clause 152 agreed. Clause 153: Nutrient pollution standards to apply to certain sewage disposal works
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville: ...Many chalk streams suffer from pollution, as the noble Viscount has said, making the waters discoloured and smelly. There have been numerous questions and debates about the effects of foul-smelling sewage discharging into our waterways. Many chalk streams suffer abstraction on a grand scale and the flow of the river is diminished as a result. As we all know, it is often the rate of flow of...
Fleur Anderson: ...hugely important debate, which is so well timed ahead of the treaty negotiations next week, and on the day that the water companies have listened to huge anger from the public and Labour MPs over sewage spills. There were 301,000 in the UK in the last year alone. English water companies have apologised and said, “More should have been done”. Many would say that that sums up the...
Alex Sobel: ...only 3% of our rivers are accessible to the public, although perhaps that is not such a bad thing for swimmers, given the state of our waterways under the current Government. Labour will end 90% of sewage discharges by 2030 and introduce strict penalties for water bosses who fail to comply. Only the Labour party will ensure access to clean rivers, lakes and seas, so that those swimmers and...
Wera Hobhouse: Last night the Environment Secretary chose to say on ITV that there is “misinformation” about sewage being dumped into our rivers, rather than acknowledging the problem. That is really insulting. People have been made sick after swimming in raw sewage. It is a serious and disgusting stain on our country, yet the Environment Secretary blames “misinformation” for the scandal. May we...
Sewage Discharges (Monitoring)
Ian Murray: ...—that is crucial. Unfortunately, waterways and coastal communities across the UK are being polluted by this Government’s refusal to stop pumping the equivalent of 40,000 days’ worth of raw sewage into them every year. It is little wonder that the SNP did not support Labour’s Bill to stop this disgraceful practice, as the Scottish Government do exactly the same. It was recently...
Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies on wastewater discharge event duration monitors of the research by Jamie Woodward and others on Acute riverine microplastic contamination due to avoidable releases of untreated wastewater, published in Nature Sustainability on 13 May 2021.
Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to increase the number of wastewater discharge event duration monitors.
Lord Krebs: ...The REUL dashboard reports about 1,700 items related to Defra, most of which concern environmental protection. These two areas are also crucial because of public concern. You have to think only of sewage in rivers, outbreaks of food-borne illness or GM foods to realise that these areas—environment and food—resonate with the public. These two areas also attracted a great deal of debate...
Baroness Ludford: ...that, particularly in the water industry, regulators have already given too much leeway to water companies’ growth, particularly in dividends and bosses’ pay—though perhaps not so much in sewage treatment capacity. There is quite a lot of concern about how all these regulatory intentions, which we are finding in statements and consultation documents, fit the professed commitment to...
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville: ..., has raised the issue of British surfers being forced to leave the country to pursue their sport in Spain due to the appalling level of pollution in and around our coastal waters caused by sewage overflows. While this subject is extremely important, I do not intend to expand the debate, given that both your Lordships and the Minister have heard all the arguments and evidence on previous...
Jim McMahon: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her has Department made of the impact of sewage pollution in (a) rivers and (b) lakes on biodiversity.
Jim McMahon: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her department is taking to protect future risk to human health from sewage pollution in (a) rivers, (b) lakes and (c) beaches.
Tim Farron: ...Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2023 to Question 182819, whether her Department plans to require water companies to publish the volume of sewage discharges in addition to frequency and duration of discharge events.
Jim McMahon: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the impact of sewage pollution on the contraction of (a) Hepatitis A an (b) E.coli.
Jim McMahon: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the risk to human health from sewage pollution in (a) rivers, (b) lakes and (c) beaches.
Jim McMahon: ..., Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential risks of contracting (a) Hepatitis A and (b) E.coli as a result of sewage pollution into rivers and water courses.
Jim McMahon: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions her Department has had with the Chief Medical Officer on the impact of sewage pollution on levels of contraction of (a) Hepatitis A and (b) E.coli as a result of sewage pollution.
