Water: Standards
The question
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
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 |
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