Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many standalone water discharge permits have been issued in (a) Fylde constituency and (b) England in each of the last five years.

The Environment Agency has issued the following number of water discharge activity permits (formerly known as discharge consents) in the last five years in:

1. Fylde constituency

1. England

   (This includes both water discharge and groundwater permits as the number of permits issued are not separately recorded for England as a whole)