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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment has he made of the environmental sustainability of England's chalk streams; and if he will make a statement.

Classifications of water body status published with the River Basin Management plans (October 2015) contain an assessment of environmental sustainability. These were last updated in autumn 2016. The Environment Agency continues to monitor water quality at thousands of sampling points and flow at its gauging stations across England. Chalk streams are well represented in these assessments.

Results for individual rivers can be found on the Catchment Data Explorer at http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning.