Question follow-through · 47534
Thames Water: Foreign Investment in UK
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to prevent overseas private equity investment in Thames Water.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to prevent overseas private equity investment in Thames Water.
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
There are no plans to introduce any such legislation at this time. More broadly, the Independent Water Commission is actively considering whether reforms are needed across the water industry, including with respect to economic regulation of water companie...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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