Question follow-through · 65066
Reservoirs: South East
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the total life costs for the South East Strategic Reservoir Option.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 4 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the total life costs for the South East Strategic Reservoir Option.
8 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jul 2025
Answer published
Water companies have a statutory duty to provide a secure supply of water for customers, efficiently and economically and set out how they plan to continue to meet this duty to their customers through Water Resources Management Plans (WRMPs). WRMPs are st...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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