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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many physical investigations the Environment Agency has made into pollutant discharges at (a) Wilson Brook and (b) Johnson Brooke, Hyde in each of the last five years.

The Environment Agency has physically attended six instances of reported pollution on the Godley Brook and unnamed tributaries. The Environment Agency worked with United Utilities and Local Authority Environmental Health Departments who attended a further six incidents and shared the information they gathered to further enquiries.