I agree, which is why the Government have changed our legal powers through the Environment Act 2021 to strengthen the regulation, and to require improved monitoring. On the basis of that monitoring and the evidence that it has revealed, we are now bringing record numbers of prosecutions. So the hon. Gentleman is right that there have been regulatory failures in the past. We have addressed those legal deficiencies through the Environment Act.
Sewage Pollution
Proceeding contribution from
George Eustice
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 6 September 2022.
It occurred during Urgent question on Sewage Pollution.
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