Question follow-through · 27861
Reservoirs: Hampshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the press release entitled Reeves: I am going further and faster to kick start the economy, published on 28 January 2025, whether a new reservoir will be built in Ham
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 31 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 25 Feb 2025 · 25 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the press release entitled Reeves: I am going further and faster to kick start the economy, published on 28 January 2025, whether a new reservoir will be built in Ham
4 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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25 Feb 2025
Answer published
Portsmouth Water’s Havant Thicket Reservoir will be the first reservoir built in over 30 years. The Havant Thicket Reservoir is under construction. It will have a capacity of 8.7 billion litres, supply an average of 21 million litres of water per day and ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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