Question follow-through · 45254

Water Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) investigations have been opened and (b) enforcement action taken under the Water Industries Act 1991, section 3(3)(a).

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 8 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 22 Apr 2025
Answer: 24 Apr 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

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Recorded timeline

8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) investigations have been opened and (b) enforcement action taken under the Water Industries Act 1991, section 3(3)(a).
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Apr 2025
Answer published
Section 3(3)(a) of the Water Industry Act 1991 sets a requirement on water companies ‘to have regard to the desirability of preserving for the public any freedom of access to areas of woodland, mountains, moor, heath, down, cliff or foreshore and other pl...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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2 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to mitigate against wild fires on the West Pennine Moors.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Peatlands: Pennines

2 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help encourage peatland restoration on the West Pennine Moors.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Countryside: Access

12 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing countryside access rights.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Food: Civil Society

18 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to help support councils to establish food partnerships.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Outdoor Recreation: Public Health

28 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential impact of increasing public access to the outdoors on public health.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Horticulture: Peat

2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department plans to take to support the horticultural industry in transitioning to peat-free growing.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Peatlands

2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2025 to Question 49987, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that there is no funding gap between the end of Nature for Climate Peatland Grant

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Foie Gras: Imports

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Water: Reform

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish a water reform white paper.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Water: Reform

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to bring forward a Water Reform Bill.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Ofwat

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her planned timetable is for the abolition of Ofwat.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Inland Waterways

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of expanding access rights for (a) swimming and (b) non-motorised craft on inland waterways.