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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she had made an assessment of the implication for her policies of the Colne Valley Fisheries Consultative report entitled Micropollutants and the River Colne, published 12 April 2023.

Since the 2000s, we have increased monitoring and either banned or highly restricted a number of pollutants both domestically and internationally.

We continue to work at pace to assess the levels of pollutants occurring in the environment, their sources and potential risks to inform future policy and regulatory approaches. We take all robust evidence and analysis available into account, including the Colne Valley Fisheries Consultative report, when developing policies

We will share details of further actions in the upcoming UK Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Work Programmes and Chemicals Strategy later this year.