Water Treatment: Inspections
(asked on 17th March 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many inspections of wastewater treatment works and storm overflows were conducted by the Environment Agency in each of the last five years.
Answered by
Emma Hardy
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 23rd March 2026
The Environment Agency has provided the following figures for inspections of wastewater treatment works and storm overflows in each of the last five financial years.
Financial Year | Totals |
2021-22 | 639 |
2022-23 | 878 |
2023-24 | 1442 |
2024-25 | 4672 |
2025-26 | 10150 |
* 2025/26 data is year to date (as of 18 March). March 2026 data is also still to be completed.