Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 72674

Water Charges

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 8 September 2025

Question

Margaret Mullane

LabourDagenham and Rainham

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made in establishing a national social tariff for water consumers; and what steps he is taking to ensure that a national social tariff will end geograp

Answer

Emma Hardy
Water companies must ensure support is available for vulnerable customers who are struggling to pay their bills. Companies have therefore more than doubled the number of customers that will receive help with their bills through social tariffs – from 4% to...

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