Question follow-through · 18461

Flood Control: Independent Water Commission

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Independent Water Commission will have powers to approve natural water management approaches.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 6 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 10 Dec 2024
Answer: 19 Dec 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

6 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Independent Water Commission will have powers to approve natural water management approaches.
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
On 23 October, the Secretary of State, in conjunction with the Welsh Government, launched an Independent Commission on the water sector regulatory system, to fundamentally transform how our water system works and clean up our rivers, lakes and seas for go...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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