Water: Standards
(asked on 14th October 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of the underlying tests for all 4,658 surface water bodies in England meet the requirement for good ecological status.
Answered by
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 29th October 2026
In the latest Environment Agency Water Framework Directive classifications, 82% of the individual element assessments (underlying tests) used to understand ecological status in surface waters were assessed as Good or High.