Question follow-through · 44740
Sewers: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the cost of (a) using sustainable urban drainage systems to manage rainwater on site of new developments and (b) allowing this ra
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 7 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 25 Apr 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
7 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the cost of (a) using sustainable urban drainage systems to manage rainwater on site of new developments and (b) allowing this ra
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Apr 2025
Answer published
Comparative and impact assessments of the type requested are not currently available. This is primarily because the design of Sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) for any given development site will depend on a range of factors, including topography of the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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