South Downs National Park

That this House reaffirms its commitment to preserve National Parks and defend the Protected Landscapes Duty; maintains that it is paramount that we protect National Parks as a means of ensuring that we all have access to nature and promote healthy ecosystems; notes that 90% of rivers in the South Downs National Park are not achieving a good status for nature and that any such decision to remove environmental protections now, or in the future, would be catastrophic; welcomes the findings of the Independent Water Commission to replace Ofwat as the water regulator; and urges the Government to get on with setting up a new, stronger regulator to hold water companies to account and stop the sewage scandal once and for all, and expand nature-based solutions to improve water resilience and restore precious habitats, especially in National Park areas.