Question follow-through · 4574
Water Companies: Criminal Proceedings
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to enable criminal charges to be brought against water company executives who persistently break the law.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 6 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 13 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to enable criminal charges to be brought against water company executives who persistently break the law.
10 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Water (Special Measures) Bill delivers on the Government’s commitment to bring criminal charges against persistent lawbreakers. Through the Bill, the maximum penalty for obstruction of investigations by the regulators will be strengthened to include i...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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