Question follow-through · 124163
Businesses: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consideration she has made of paying businesses compensation directly for water outages in shared businesses premises instead of landlords.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 14 Apr 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consideration she has made of paying businesses compensation directly for water outages in shared businesses premises instead of landlords.
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Apr 2026
Answer published
All customers of water and sewerage companies are entitled to guaranteed minimum standards of service, as set out by Government. These rights are known as the guaranteed standards scheme (GSS). Where a company fails to meet any of the standards, it is req...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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