Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 45254

Water Companies

Tabled: 8 April 2025
Answered: 24 April 2025

Question

Phil Brickell

LabourBolton West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) investigations have been opened and (b) enforcement action taken under the Water Industries Act 1991, section 3(3)(a).

Answer

Emma Hardy
Section 3(3)(a) of the Water Industry Act 1991 sets a requirement on water companies ‘to have regard to the desirability of preserving for the public any freedom of access to areas of woodland, mountains, moor, heath, down, cliff or foreshore and other pl...

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