Water: Standards
(asked on 5th May 2020) - 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 much funding has been allocated to water quality monitoring since 2010.
Answered by
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 11th May 2020
£130.5 million was allocated to the Environment Agency (EA) for water quality monitoring from 2015 to the end of 2019. This includes planning, sampling, analysing, recording and interpreting the data.
Prior to 2015, funding allocations within the EA were not recorded to the same level of detail and so accurate and consistent figures cannot be provided for the period 2010 to 2015.