Contents

1. Introduction
2. How we receive reports
3. Number of disclosures
4. Contact the Environment Agency

Introduction

The Environment Agency is designated as a prescribed person for whistleblowing. Workers can contact the Environment Agency about:

• acts or omissions which have an actual or potential impact on the environment
• the management or regulation of the environment

This includes those relating to:

• flooding
• pollution
• abstraction of water
• the flow of rivers
• inland fisheries and migratory salmon or trout

Under the Prescribed Persons (Reports on Disclosures of Information) Regulations 2017, commonly known as ‘whistleblowing’, we must act on any third party disclosures made to us about environmental malpractice. These regulations also require us to produce an annual report on whistleblowing disclosures received by us.

This report covers the reporting period of 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023.

How we receive reports

The Environment Agency can receive reports in a variety of ways, by:

• phone to our customer contact centre
• the dedicated incident communication centre hotline
• email
• post
• social media
• direct contact with officers

Reports are often about matters that are already subject to investigation or inspection at regulated facilities. However, not all reports contain sufficient information for us to be able to determine that they are from a whistleblower rather than an ordinary incident reporter such as a member of the public. Reports may also have insufficient...

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