Question follow-through · 7977
Water Companies: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of the inclusion of Recommendation 46 of the Independent Water Commission in full in the Water White Paper.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of the inclusion of Recommendation 46 of the Independent Water Commission in full in the Water White Paper.
15 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2026
Answer published
Our White Paper commits to taking forward Recommendation 46 of the IWC. We will make it easier for a company’s owners to change their ownership model, by ensuring the new regulator has a transparent process to assess whether an ownership change should go ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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