Sarah Olney MP: written questions
4 Jul 2026–16 Oct 2026 · year in progress
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Written questions
Water Abstraction: TeddingtonDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 29468More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the ability of the proposed Teddington Direct River Abstraction Scheme to provide resilience in a 1:200 year drought event, in the context of the 1:40 d
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordWater Abstraction: TeddingtonDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 29467More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 8th September 2026, to Question UIN 26078, on Water Abstraction: Teddington, how many additional days would the proposed Teddington Direct River Abstraction a
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordWater Abstraction: TeddingtonDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 29466More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 7th September 2026, to Question UIN 26076, on Water Abstraction: Teddington, what assessment she has made of Thames Water’s M2 (LTOA) abstraction licence in c
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordReservoirs: Lee ValleyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26594More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment was made of the relative requirements of the Lee Valley reservoirs compared with the Northern Lower Thames reservoirs in times of drought in 2022.
Answer: In 2022 the Environment Agency declared a drought in south east England. This resulted in lower than average flows in the River Thames, reducing the volumes that could be abstracted and stored in reservoirs in London, including the Queen Mary, Queen Mothe...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordReservoirs: Lee ValleyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26593More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the relative requirements of the Lee Valley reservoirs compared with the Northern Lower Thames reservoirs in times of drought.
Answer: In 2022 the Environment Agency declared a drought in south east England. This resulted in lower than average flows in the River Thames, reducing the volumes that could be abstracted and stored in reservoirs in London, including the Queen Mary, Queen Mothe...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordWater Abstraction: TeddingtonDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26078More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of (a) the daily quantity of raw water that the Teddington Direct River Abstraction Scheme would supply to reservoirs for onward transport to water t
Answer: The proposed Teddington Direct River Abstraction (TDRA) supplies 67Ml/d during droughts. London’s water use is just under 2000Ml/d. Therefore, TDRA contributes just over 3% of Thames Water’s total demand in London and is needed to provide drought resilien...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDroughts: ReservoirsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26077More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of the 2022 drought on the Queen Mary, Queen Mother and Wraysbury reservoirs.
Answer: In 2022 the Environment Agency declared a drought in south east England. This resulted in lower than average flows in the River Thames, reducing the volumes that could be abstracted and stored in reservoirs in London, including the Queen Mary, Queen Mothe...
Answered 15 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordWater Abstraction: TeddingtonDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26076More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer provided on 14th July 2026, to Question 16496, on Water Abstraction: (a) what determination she made of the flow rate, measured at the Kingston gauge, that would
Answer: The proposed Teddington Direct River Abstraction is an intermittent drought resilience scheme triggered by river flow and reservoir storage conditions through the Lower Thames Control Diagram and does not have a single flow-rate trigger at the Kingston ga...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordWater: RegulationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 21304More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the government will set out a timeline for the introduction of the Clean Water Bill.
Answer: The Clean Water Bill was announced as part of the second Parliamentary session in the King’s Speech on 13 May. The Bill will implement many of the reforms outlined in the Government’s ‘New Vision for Water’ White Paper, published on 20 January. The Bill w...
Answered 3 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordWater SupplyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 16969More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the efficacy of an indirect potable reuse schemes for direct discharge to reservoirs as an environment buffer.
Answer: Indirect potable reuse (water recycling) uses an environmental buffer before abstracting water into drinking water treatment and supply. This environmental buffer can be a reservoir. There are few schemes in operation currently, but water recycling will p...
Answered 14 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordRiver Thames: Water TreatmentDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 16968More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the efficacy of an indirect potable reuse scheme which would take treated sewage from Mogden Sewage Treatment Works, process it using an advanced water
Answer: Water companies explore a wide range of options, and variants of those options, through the Water Resources Management Planning process. Many of these are not taken forward due to technical, practical, or cost considerations. Any new water recycling schem...
Answered 14 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordWater Abstraction: TeddingtonDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 16496More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost per megalitre of water produced over an eighty-year lifespan of Teddington Direct River Abstraction.
Answer: The Teddington Direct River Abstraction (TDRA) project is being developed as a scheme intended to operate intermittently, during periods of drought, rather than as a continuously operating water supply source. The actual volume of water that TDRA may prov...
Answered 14 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordWater Supply: Greater LondonDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 16495More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of indirect potable reuse schemes in improving London’s water supply resilience.
Answer: Water reuse (water recycling) plays a key role in helping to improve water supply resilience. Water companies have a statutory duty to provide a secure supply of water for customers and set out how they plan to continue to supply water to their customers ...
Answered 14 Jul 2026
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