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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...