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...