MPs call for Spending Review to tackle phosphate pollution in River Wye

Hereford and South Herefordshire MP Jesse Norman, together with other local MPs, Bill Wiggin, Fay Jones and Mark Harper, have written a letter to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury calling for a three-year integrated spending package in the forthcoming Spending Review specifically focused on cleaning up the River Wye.

The MPs ask for £10-15m funding and that the funding comes from fines paid by water companies for unpermitted pollution discharges.