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Water Companies: Fines

Commons · Question 76211 · Tabled 9 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 17 Sep 2025

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Asked by Ben Maguire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish a list of schemes where fines levied against water companies (a) have been reinvested to clean up UK waters and (b) are programmed to be reinvested to clean up UK w

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Answered by Emma Hardy, 17 Sep 2025

In June this Government announced that fines and penalties levied against water companies for environmental breaches, will be reinvested into future local environmental projects across the country to clean up our rivers, lakes and seas. These could includ...