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Water Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reinvesting fines collected from water companies in reducing water bills.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 30 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 3 Feb 2025
Answer: 27 Mar 2025 · 56 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

30 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reinvesting fines collected from water companies in reducing water bills.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Water Restoration Fund, which launched in April last year, is reinvesting funding based on water company environmental fines and penalties into projects to improve the water environment. Up to £11 million of funding was made available on a competitive...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

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13 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure value for money for water bills.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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13 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support farmers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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13 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support food production in the UK to increase food security.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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24 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total cost was of providing translation services in his Department in the last year.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Equality

27 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what diversity, equality and inclusion targets his Department has for staff recruitment.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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4 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help tackling potential water shortages relating to population growth in the future.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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6 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people have been (a) fined and (b) received criminal records for breaking laws on log burning in each of the last five years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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