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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has produced an impact assessment of sewage dumping by water companies on British wildlife.

Our Storm Overflows Evidence Project assessed the impact of sewage discharges and harm caused by storm overflows on the ecology of our rivers. We used this evidence to inform our Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan, which sets the most ambitious targets to reduce sewage discharges from storm overflows in water company history.