Question follow-through · 89201
Water Companies: Nationalisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish in full the (a) modelling and (b) assumptions underpinning her Department's £100?billion estimate of nationalising the water sector.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 13 Nov 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish in full the (a) modelling and (b) assumptions underpinning her Department's £100?billion estimate of nationalising the water sector.
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Nov 2025
Answer published
Defra has estimated the cost of nationalising the water sector to be around £100 billion. We have published in full the assumptions and methodology informing our estimate here: Nationalising the water sector: how we assessed the cost - GOV.UK.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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