Question follow-through · 4768

Water Charges: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure that proposed increases to consumer water bills are used for infrastructure investment.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 9 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 12 Sept 2024
Answer: 12 Sept 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

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Recorded timeline

9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure that proposed increases to consumer water bills are used for infrastructure investment.
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2024
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Chippenham, Sarah Gibson, on 12 September 2024, PQ 3559.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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