Question follow-through · 76212
Water Companies: Fines
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the total amount received from water companies in (a) fines and (b) penalties since the Spending Review 2023; and what steps she has taken to e
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the total amount received from water companies in (a) fines and (b) penalties since the Spending Review 2023; and what steps she has taken to e
11 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2025
Answer published
£109 million in fines and penalties has been applied against water companies since October 2023. This includes the £104.5 million fine issued by Ofwat to Thames Water for breaches of rules relating to the company’s wastewater operations. In June this Gove...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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