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Water Charges

Commons · Question 27675 · Tabled 30 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 27 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Lee Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reinvesting fines collected from water companies in reducing water bills.

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 27 Mar 2025

The Water Restoration Fund, which launched in April last year, is reinvesting funding based on water company environmental fines and penalties into projects to improve the water environment. Up to £11 million of funding was made available on a competitive...