Sewage: North West

(asked on 13th May 2026) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her department has made any assessment of the occurrences of sewage spills within the United Utilities water network in 2025 in (a) Stockport constituency (b) Greater Manchester and (c) the North-West.


Answered by
Emma Hardy Portrait
Emma Hardy
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 22nd May 2026

In the Northwest of England, 10,613 hours of sewage spills were recorded on dry days. The EA has identified the 50 sites in the region with the highest levels of dry day spilling. Four of these sites are in Greater Manchester. None are located within the Stockport constituency.

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