Sewers: Private Sector
(asked on 17th March 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how often inspections are conducted on private sewage systems to prevent environmental contamination.
Answered by
Emma Hardy
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 24th March 2025
In 2022, 2023 and 2024 respectively the Environment Agency carried out 185, 224 and 202 inspections of private sewerage systems, excluding private discharges of trade effluent.