Question follow-through · 5604
Water Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish a timeline for the review of the water sector announced on 12 September 2024.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 10 Oct 2024 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish a timeline for the review of the water sector announced on 12 September 2024.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government will be carrying out a review to fundamentally transform how our water system works and clean up our rivers, lakes and seas for good. We will provide further details in due course.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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14 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of proposed plans to make it easier to build data centres on levels of water usage.
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