To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the most recent classification by chemical status of the UK's surface water bodies.
Answered on
28 October 2019
The most recent surface classifications were published in January 2017 and can be accessed via the Catchment Data Explorer application available online at: https://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/.
Chemicals status classifications will next be updated in 2020 as part of the work to review and update River Basin Management Plans.
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