Question follow-through · 96335
Water Companies: Risk Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2025 to Question 82809 on Water Companies: Risk Assessment, what steps she is taking to help ensure compliance by local authorities with statutory
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
- Biodiversity · 4 Dec 2025
- Water Companies: Regulation · 4 Dec 2025
- Sustainable Farming Incentive · 4 Dec 2025
- Biodiversity and Sustainable Farming Incentive: Cost Effectiveness · 4 Dec 2025
- Environment · 4 Dec 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2025 to Question 82809 on Water Companies: Risk Assessment, what steps she is taking to help ensure compliance by local authorities with statutory
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 2025
Answer published
Reporting duties return rates by local authorities will be raised by officials in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government through their regular liaison meetings with the Local Government Association.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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