Question follow-through · 3398
Water Companies: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of Ofwat in regulating water companies.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2024 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of Ofwat in regulating water companies.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2024
Answer published
The previous Government weakened the regulators and failed to hold water companies to account. The new Government’s water (Special Measures) Bill will give Ofwat tough new powers to hold water companies to account where they do not deliver for customers a...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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