Question follow-through · 33367
Water Companies: Fines
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislation to prohibit water companies from passing on any fines to customers via increasing their
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 4 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislation to prohibit water companies from passing on any fines to customers via increasing their
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Mar 2025
Answer published
Ofwat are clear that when financial penalties are imposed on water companies, customers should not bear the costs and water companies cannot surcharge their customers to recover the funds. Building on this, during its first week in office, the government ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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