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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 199386, tabled on 13 September 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to extend the period of testing bathing water sites to 52 weeks a year.

Answered on

21 September 2023

Defra will continue to reflect on changes in how and where people use bathing waters, including new evidence where it exists around when and where people use bathing waters, to feed into future bathing water policy development.