Question follow-through · 18611
Water Supply: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring water companies to demonstrate that sufficient water resources are available before large-scale housing dev
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 21 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Communities and local government
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring water companies to demonstrate that sufficient water resources are available before large-scale housing dev
16 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jul 2026
Answer published
I refer the Rt Hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 6660 on 10 June 2026.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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