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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many groundwater activity 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 groundwater activity permits in each of the last five years in:

1. Fylde constituency

1. England

   (This includes water discharge activity permits and groundwater activity permits, the numbers of which are not separately recorded for England)