Question follow-through · 25484
Sewage: Water Treatment
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how his Department plans to ensure that sewage treatment facilities (a) in Horley and (b) nationally are upgraded according to agreed timescales.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how his Department plans to ensure that sewage treatment facilities (a) in Horley and (b) nationally are upgraded according to agreed timescales.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2025
Answer published
For Price Review 2024 (PR24), which runs from 2025 – 2030, water companies will be delivering record levels of investment: £104 billion over the next five years. Ofwat, Environment Agency (EA) and Natural Resources Wales have developed a new Delivery Moni...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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