Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to:
- review the process for allowing raw sewage discharge from homes into Scottish coastal waters
- provide additional funding to SEPA for enforcement
- introduce legislation to ban households from discharging raw sewage
Petitioner: Sue Wallis
Status: Under consideration
Date published: 16 November 2022
Click here for the full petition
8 March 2023: The Committee agreed to write to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and the Law Society of Scotlanf
Official Report of Meeting 8 March 2023
PE1988/A: Scottish Government submission of 14 December 2022 (118KB, pdf) posted 20 December 2022
PE1988/B: Petitioner submission of 8 January 2023 (56KB, pdf) posted 13 February 2023