Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 84552

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Public Bodies

Tabled: 22 October 2025
Answered: 29 October 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

ConservativeMid Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has prepared an impact assessments on the decisions to (a) merge Ofwat and the Drinking Inspectorate and (b) remove the environmental regulatory functions of the

Answer

Emma Hardy
The Government has committed to establishing a single, powerful regulator for the entire water sector that will stand on the side of customers, investors and the environment. The current fragmented approach to water has led to contradictory and competing ...

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