Question follow-through · 61683
Water Companies: Fines
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what options his Department considered for the use of fines collected from water companies.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 20 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 27 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what options his Department considered for the use of fines collected from water companies.
24 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jun 2025
Answer published
Following the Spending Review, the Government has confirmed water company fines will be allocated to local environmental projects and programmes to clean up our rivers, lakes and seas. Over £100 million in fines has been levied against water companies sin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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