Water: Standards
(asked on 24th June 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 many bathing waters were classified as poor in each of the last ten years, and what estimate his Department has made of the potential impact on domestic tourism trends.
Answered by
Emma Hardy
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 7th July 2025
The following table shows the number of bathing waters classified as poor over the previous 10 years.
Year | Number of bathing waters classified as poor and notes. |
2015 | 12 |
2016 | 6 |
2017 | 7 |
2018 | 9 |
2019 | 7 |
2020 | Classifications were not produced in 2020 due to the pandemic |
2021 | 4 |
2022 | 12 |
2023 | 18 |
2024 | 37 |