Written questions

Water Companies: Licensing

Commons · Question 50999 · Tabled 8 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 15 May 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will review the conditions on which water companies' licences are renewed where there is repeated (a) pollution or (b) non-compliance.

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 15 May 2025

Where companies have failed to meet their statutory or licence obligations, Ofwat have the power to take action through an enforcement order or financial penalty. This Government will continue to work with water sector regulators to hold water companies t...