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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications for inland bathing water sites were submitted last year; and how many and what proportion of those applications were successful.

In 2022 my department received 16 bathing water applications for inland sites. 3 of these sites have been designated as bathing waters: Sykes Lane Bathing Beach, Rutland Water, Whitwell Creek, Rutland Water and an area of the River Deben Estuary at Waldringfield, Suffolk.