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Question follow-through · 122633

Water Companies: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has undertaken a cost-benefit analysis of requiring all water company incidents to be attended.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
25 Mar 2026
Answer
26 Mar 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has undertaken a cost-benefit analysis of requiring all water company incidents to be attended.

  2. 25 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    The EA already operates a robust, risk-based system to respond to pollution incidents. The increase in inspections, including unannounced inspections, will allow the EA to conduct more in-depth and independent audits to get to the root-cause of incidents,...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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