Question follow-through · 372
Southern Water: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of Southern Water’s compensation fund for losses incurred by (a) residents and (b) businesses during the water outage in May 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 25 Jul 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of Southern Water’s compensation fund for losses incurred by (a) residents and (b) businesses during the water outage in May 2024.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jul 2024
Answer published
The Secretary of State has already met with CEOs of all 16 water companies, including Southern Water, setting out his expectations from government going forward. He will have further conversations with water company chief executives in due course, includi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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