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Bathing Water (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2025

Asked by Gideon AmosLiberal DemocratDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 19 November 2025UIN 89979

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure the methodology for Core Reform 2 of the Bathing Water (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2025 will be subject to effective scrutiny.

Answered by Emma Hardy

The consultation on reforms to the Bathing Water Regulations 2013 ran from 12 November to 23 December 2024.

We are committed to working with stakeholders to ensure that feasibility and disproportionate cost are assessed through transparent and robust modelling and analysis.

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