Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 82809
Water Companies: Risk Assessment
Tabled: 16 October 2025
Answered: 22 October 2025
Question
Martin Wrigley
Liberal Democrat — Newton Abbot
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to increase the number of local authorities providing Ministers with results from risk assessments of private water supplies.
Answer
Emma HardyLocal authorities have a regulatory duty to provide the Secretary of State (in practice, the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI)), with a summary of the results from the risk assessment no longer than 12 months after the day on which it was carried out. Loc...
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