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

What steps he is taking to improve the water quality of rivers.

After 14 years of Conservative failure, we share the public’s fury at the levels of sewage being released into our rivers, lakes and seas.

That is why this Government has introduced legislation to put the water companies under special measures to end their disgraceful behaviour. But this is not all we are doing.

We will outline further legislation to fundamentally transform how the water industry is run and speed up the delivery of upgrades to our sewage infrastructure to clean up our waterways for good.