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Scheduled Event - Friday 21st June
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Commons - Private Members' Bills - Main Chamber
Chalk Streams (Protection) Bill 2023-24
MP: Sarah Green
Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Environment Agency

Mar. 27 2024

Source Page: Revitalising the Hamble Brook
Document: Revitalising the Hamble Brook (webpage)

Found: wetland site, encompassing over 2,500 square metres of new wildlife habitat, thanks to the Chilterns Chalk


Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Environment Agency

Mar. 22 2024

Source Page: Improving river habitats to support wildlife during high and low flows
Document: Improving river habitats to support wildlife during high and low flows: what works in which rivers: report (PDF)

Found: exercise was conducted on 10 new case studies focussed on generating insights for high energy and chalk


Scheduled Event - Friday 22nd March
View Source
Commons - Private Members' Bills - Main Chamber
Chalk Streams (Protection) Bill 2023-24
MP: Sarah Green
Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Environment Agency

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters
Document: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 2 (PDF)

Found: effluent streams.


Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Environment Agency

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters
Document: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 1 Humber Pathfinder Project (PDF)

Found: These two streams of evidence are brought together in this final report, conclusions , and recommendations


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters
Document: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 2 (PDF)

Found: effluent streams.


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters
Document: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 1 Humber Pathfinder Project (PDF)

Found: These two streams of evidence are brought together in this final report, conclusions , and recommendations


Written Question
Rivers: Sewage
Monday 18th March 2024

Asked by: Danny Kruger (Conservative - Devizes)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of septic tanks on the cleanliness of rivers; and if he will make it his policy to ban septic tanks (a) in the catchment areas of chalk streams and (b) near other watercourses.

Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Large numbers of properties in rural areas of England rely on on-site water treatment systems as they are not connected to mains sewerage systems. Septic tanks, the most common on-site sewage treatment systems in these areas, are regulated to ensure they are maintained properly and do not cause pollution. Through our long-term Plan for Water, the Government is committed to delivering a clean water environment for people and nature, including the impact of private sewerage systems on chalk streams. This aligns with our broader commitment to review private sewage discharges regulation to manage environmental risk.


Written Question
Water Abstraction: Licensing
Monday 18th March 2024

Asked by: Thérèse Coffey (Conservative - Suffolk Coastal)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many licences for abstraction in chalk streams have been rescinded in each year since 2010.

Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

A total of 110 licences affecting chalk streams have been revoked since 2010. A further 158 have been varied or reduced.

The abstraction licence changes have returned over 37 billion litres of water per year to chalk catchments and prevented a further 110 billion litres per year being abstracted.

Number of abstraction licences, affecting chalk streams, that have been changed up to 30.09.23

Year

Number of licences varied or reduced

Number of licences revoked

Total

2010

7

0

7

2011

2

10

12

2012

3

0

3

2013

5

3

8

2014

14

6

20

2015

30

5

35

2016

5

0

5

2017

24

45

69

2018

43

16

59

2019

5

12

17

2020

9

5

14

2021

0

5

5

2022

1

1

2023

10

3

13

Total

158

110

268