Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 84066
Reservoirs: Farms
Tabled: 21 October 2025
Answered: 28 October 2025
Named DayQuestion
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
Labour — Suffolk Coastal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Environment Agency regulation on farm reservoirs, and what steps her Department is taking to ensure that on-farm water storage c
Answer
Emma HardyThe National Framework for Water Resources sets out the potential scale of action to secure sustainable levels of abstraction. Many abstraction licences reservoirs are sustainable because they include conditions to protect the water environment. If not, t...
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