Rebecca Pow corrected the Commons record on Environment Agency: Enforcement Budget

22 November 2022 · Commons Hansard, Written Corrections · Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The words were spoken in the Commons on 17 November 2022. The correction was made by letter from the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the hon. Member for Taunton Deane (Rebecca Pow), and printed in Hansard's Written Corrections on 22 November 2022. The figure 5,000 in the original became 500 in the correction, lower by 4,500. Altogether 2 words differ between the two versions.

The question

5. What assessment she has made of the potential effect of a reduction in the Environment Agency’s budget on its enforcement work.

Original and corrected words

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I feel a bit like a jack-in-the-box this morning, Mr Speaker. Environment Agency enforcement is at a record high, and its funding is closely monitored to ensure that it can continue to hold polluters to account. Last year, record fines were handed to water companies, making it clear that polluters will pay. The EA’s total budget this year is £1,650 million. I am always bad at reading out numbers and putting them into words. That is nearly 20% of DEFRA’s entire budget, including new ringfenced money for special enforcement activities, such as 4,000 more farm inspections and ~~5,000~~ more sewage treatment works inspections.	I feel a bit like a jack-in-the-box this morning, Mr Speaker. Environment Agency enforcement is at a record high, and its funding is closely monitored to ensure that it can continue to hold polluters to account. Last year, record fines were handed to water companies, making it clear that polluters will pay. The EA’s total budget this year is £1,650 million. I am always bad at reading out numbers and putting them into words. That is nearly 20% of DEFRA’s entire budget, including new ringfenced money for special enforcement activities, such as 4,000 more farm inspections and 500 more sewage treatment works inspections.

Original

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I feel a bit like a jack-in-the-box this morning, Mr Speaker.
Environment Agency enforcement is at a record high, and its funding is closely monitored to ensure that it can continue to hold polluters to account. Last year, record fines were handed to water companies, making it clear that polluters will pay. The EA’s total budget this year is £1,650 million. I am always bad at reading out numbers and putting them into words. That is nearly 20% of DEFRA’s entire budget, including new ringfenced money for special enforcement activities, such as 4,000 more farm inspections and ~~5,000~~ more sewage treatment works inspections.

The correction in Hansard.

Receipt

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Date read	15 October 2026
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