Water Companies: Insolvency
Commons · Question 90063 · Tabled 11 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Charlie Maynard
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of publishing the (a) criteria, (b) thresholds and (c) circumstances for making an application to the High Court for a water indust
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 19 Nov 2025
The law states that Special Administration can only be initiated if the company becomes insolvent or they are in such serious breach of their principal statutory duties or an enforcement order that it is inappropriate for the company to retain its licence...