Question follow-through · 38825
Water Restoration Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria his Department uses to assess funding applications for the Water Restoration Fund.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria his Department uses to assess funding applications for the Water Restoration Fund.
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Water Restoration Fund 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 basis to support a range of water r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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