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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Retained EU Law Bill, what plans her Department has to (a) retain (b) replace or (c) revoke the Bathing Waters Regulations 2013.

Defra is in the process of analysing its retained EU law and determining what should be preserved as part of domestic law, as well as REUL that should be repealed, or amended. We have been clear that we will uphold our environmental protections and the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill will not come at the expense of the protections that are already in place for our bathing waters.