Question follow-through · 16001
Water Companies: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the cumulative regulatory time spent on the processing of New Appointment and Variations applications for independent water networks in 2023-4.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the cumulative regulatory time spent on the processing of New Appointment and Variations applications for independent water networks in 2023-4.
27 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Secretary of State has not had any discussion with Ofwat on the implementation of a national New Appointment and Variations licence for independent water networks. Given the principle of regulatory independence, Ofwat conduct their functions at a dist...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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