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Water Supply: Standards

Commons · Question 95914 · Tabled 1 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 9 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2025 to Question 82811 on Water Supply: Standards, whether she has assessed the adequacy of issuing non-mandatory guidance for private water supply

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 9 Dec 2025

The Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) publishes and maintains a suite of risk assessment tools on its website. Risk assessments must meet the requirements of European standard EN 15975-2 entitled "Security of Drinking Water Supply - Guidelines for Ri...