Water Charges
Commons · Question 72674 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 8 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Margaret Mullane
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made in establishing a national social tariff for water consumers; and what steps he is taking to ensure that a national social tariff will end geograp
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 8 Sep 2025
Water companies must ensure support is available for vulnerable customers who are struggling to pay their bills. Companies have therefore more than doubled the number of customers that will receive help with their bills through social tariffs - from 4% to...