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Water Companies: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Written Statement of 18 July 2024 on First steps to reform water sector, HCWS3, under what circumstances compensation payments to customers will be triggered thro

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
23 Jul 2024
Target answer date
25 Jul 2024
Answer
29 Jul 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 23 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Written Statement of 18 July 2024 on First steps to reform water sector, HCWS3, under what circumstances compensation payments to customers will be triggered thro

  2. 25 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 29 Jul 2024

    Answer published

    The Secretary of State recently announced a series of initial steps towards ending the crisis in the water sector. This included strengthening protection and compensation for households and businesses when their basic water services are affected through t...

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Animal Welfare: Slaughterhouses

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the adherence to animal welfare requirements of abattoirs in receipt of funding from the Smaller Abattoir Fund.

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Poultry: Animal Welfare

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the Scottish Government’s consultation on a proposal to phase out the use of cages in Scotland’s laying hen sector

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Poultry and Pigs: Animal Welfare

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish a timetable for a public consultation on the use of (a) cages for laying hens and (b) farrowing crates for pigs.