Question follow-through · 31775
Water Companies: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the planned spend on Direct Procurement for Customer schemes is for each water company.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 21 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Palantir · 24 Feb 2025
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Written Questions · 28 Feb 2025
- Water Companies: Infrastructure · 10 Mar 2025
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Secondment · 10 Mar 2025
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Hakluyt · 11 Mar 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the planned spend on Direct Procurement for Customer schemes is for each water company.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
The development costs of funding Direct Procurement for Customer (DPC) schemes and Specified Infrastructure Project Regulations (SIPR) projects have been included in company business plans, as set out in Ofwat’s Major Projects Appendix. Funding is set out...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Palantir
24 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff his Department has seconded from Palantir since July 2024.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Written Questions
28 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department plans to respond to Question 31773 tabled by the hon. Member for Normanton and Hemsworth on 21 February 2025.
Water Companies: Infrastructure
10 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the annual additional cost to households will be of each of Yorkshire Water’s four Direct Procurement for Customers (DPC) schemes; and what the additional cost will be per househo
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Secondment
10 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of his Department's officials have been seconded from (a) the Institute for Economic Affairs, (b) the Policy Exchange, (c) the Adam Smith Institute and (d) Labour Together sin
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Hakluyt
11 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff their Department has seconded from Hakluyt since July 2024.
Water Companies: Yorkshire and the Humber
17 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2025 to Question 36586 on Water Companies: Infrastructure, what estimate he has made of the potential impact of each Direct Procurement for Customers
Water Companies: Yorkshire and the Humber
3 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2025, to Question 38543 on Water Companies: Infrastructure, if he will publish his calculations on the savings by delivering the scheme through DPC.
Water Companies: Yorkshire and the Humber
3 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2025 to Question 38543 on Water Companies: Infrastructure, whether he has made an estimate of how much DPC schemes costs will increase household wate
Environment Protection: Enforcement
10 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many environmental permit breaches were recorded by the Environment Agency in each year between 2019 and 2025; how many were classified as category 1, 2 and 3; and what proportion
Waste Management: Enforcement
10 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to ensure enforcement action against waste companies is more robust.