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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects sewage release levels to be reduced.

Through the Government’s Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan (SODRP) we have set stringent targets for water companies to reduce the use of storm overflows, driving the largest infrastructure programme in water company history of £60 billion over 25 years. These stringent targets will prevent hundreds of thousands of storm overflow discharges every year.

An indicative trajectory of spill reductions can be found on page 19 of the government’s Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan which is publicly available on the government website (Storm overflows discharge reduction plan - GOV.UK ).