Water Supply: Standards
Commons · Question 82811 · 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, what guidance her Department has issued to local authorities on private water supply risk assessments to ensure consistency.
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 22 Oct 2025
The Drinking Water Inspectorate publishes and maintains a suite of risk assessment tools on its website. These tools are designed to meet the risk assessment requirements of the Private Water Supplies (England) Regulations 2016 (as amended). It is not man...