Written questions

Water Companies: Risk Assessment

Commons · Question 82809 · Tabled 16 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 22 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to increase the number of local authorities providing Ministers with results from risk assessments of private water supplies.

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 22 Oct 2025

Local authorities have a regulatory duty to provide the Secretary of State (in practice, the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI)), with a summary of the results from the risk assessment no longer than 12 months after the day on which it was carried out. Loc...