MP brands Environment Agency's uncertainty on nutrients crisis ‘unacceptable’

By Joey Gardiner2023-07-05T09:50:00

Former housing secratary says lack of Environment Agency timeframe to sort nutrient neutrality requires urgent government action

Former housing secretary Simon Clarke has branded as “totally unacceptable” the interim Environment Agency boss’s admission that he didn’t know how long the nutrients crisis would carry on blocking housing development.

The Conservative Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP, who was briefly housing secretary under Liz Truss’ administration, said in response to John Curtin’s evidence to a House of Lords committee that the nutrient neutrality situation needed urgent action.

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