Question follow-through · 20661
Water Companies: Accountability
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department or water companies will appoint members to consumer water panels.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department or water companies will appoint members to consumer water panels.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
For too long customers have not been at the heart of the objectives of water companies. This Government believes the interests of customers should be clearly represented and they should play a key role in holding water companies to account on their perfor...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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