Question follow-through · 111526
Water Charges: Social Tariffs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of support for water social tariff across different regions; and what steps she is taking to ensure households in similar
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of support for water social tariff across different regions; and what steps she is taking to ensure households in similar
10 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2026
Answer published
Evidence shows that levels of social tariff provision vary between regions because each water company sets its own eligibility criteria and level of support. The Government keeps support schemes under review and expects industry to do the same to ensure v...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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