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answering dept short name	Environment%2C Food and Rural Affairs
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
min answer › date of answer	2020-11-02
max answer › date of answer	2020-11-02

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21/10/2020

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Seas and Oceans: Pollution Control

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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the Environment Agency undertaking year-round water testing at English beaches.

tabling member constituency

Hove

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Peter Kyle

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107061

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is ministerial correction

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02/11/2020

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The Environment Agency (EA) is required to follow the monitoring requirements set out in the Bathing Water Regulations (2013). These specify a fixed bathing water season between 15 May and 30 September. Monitoring is required to take place within these dates, except for the first sample of the season which is to be taken shortly before the start of the season. This monitoring is used to produce a classification scheme set out within the Regulations. No systematic assessment has been carried out by the Environment Agency of the impact, or merits of going beyond current statutory monitoring requirements. Changes to these requirements to produce a classification would require the legislation to be changed and the Environment Agency to be appropriately funded to deliver the sampling needed.

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Taunton Deane

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Rebecca Pow

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02/11/2020 17:32:34

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label	Biography information for Rebecca Pow

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label	Biography information for Peter Kyle