Mark Spencer – 2022 Comments on Sewage Being Pumped Into the Sea in Cornwall

The comments made by Mark Spencer, the Minister for Food, on BBC News on 31 October 2022.

INTERVIEWER

[Mentioned that another incident about sewage being pumped into the sea. Why was this happening?]

MARK SPENCER

It’s something that we need to stop. It is again when we get huge downpours of rain, it is quite a challenge to deal with that volume of water within those sewage facilities. We can all help as individuals, we can all check where the water spout from the roof, it shouldn’t go into the sewage system. Actually, one of the challenges as people build an extension on their house or put their conservatory up, they drop the down pipe into the sewage system and not into a soakaway or into a top water drain. One thing that you could do as an individual is check your own down pipe and check where they go.

INTERVIEWER

[Asked what the Government was going as they’ve been in power for 12 years and things aren’t getting any better]

MARK SPENCER

It is getting better.