United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 20552
Microplastics: Water Treatment
Introduced
26 March 2024
Last action
16 April 2024 · Answer
Status
Answered
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
16 April 2024
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of wastewater treatment plants in removing microplastics from waste water.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
26 March 2024
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of wastewater treatment plants in removing microplastics from waste water.
Source: Commons
16 April 2024
Answer
A recent UK water industry project investigated the quantities and types of microplastics entering a range of wastewater treatment works. The Department reviewed the findings from the work and agrees with the conclusion that conventional wastewater treatm...
Source: Written answer
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
No documents linked.
Sponsors
- · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Answering body
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-03-26/20552
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1698934
- uk · wq-1698934 · source updated 16 April 2024