Mar. 21 2024
Source Page: Environmental capacity for industrial clustersFound: effluent streams.
Mar. 21 2024
Source Page: Environmental capacity for industrial clustersFound: These two streams of evidence are brought together in this final report, conclusions , and recommendations
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.
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of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many licences for abstraction in chalk streams have been rescinded in each year since 2010.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A total of 110 licences affecting chalk streams have been revoked since 2010.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 | |||
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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 |
Found: Chalk Streams (Protection) Bill [AS INTRODUCED] CONTENTS 1 Creation of a category of protection
Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) streams, which, as the Minister knows, are a precious resource. - Speech Link
2: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) In addition to reducing the burden of abstraction pressures, the Government are protecting chalk streams - Speech Link
Mar. 06 2024
Source Page: Hynet Carbon Dioxide Transportation and Storage Project - OffshoreFound: The Afon Eden is fed by a number of base poor upland streams, which flow from the eastern flanks of
Mar. 06 2024
Source Page: Buckinghamshire Level 2 devolution framework agreementFound: importance, including Local Wildlife Sites covering over 12 ,000 acres, over 1 ,000 miles of rivers and streams
Mentions:
1: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) Devon is that they are earnest in their desire to prevent agricultural pollution from affecting our streams - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) Indeed, I have seen the value of such funding streams in my constituency, including at the partly Government-funded - Speech Link
3: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) sense in putting beavers in large rivers, but there is no sense in reintroducing beavers into small chalk - Speech Link
Mar. 01 2024
Source Page: Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) additives: a scoping reviewFound: An overview of PVC waste streams in the UK is also provided, including waste composition, recycling