Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 126799

Water Restoration Fund: Rivers

Tabled: 13 April 2026
Answered: 20 April 2026
Named Day

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of establishing ring-fenced funding for chalk stream restoration in the Water Restoration Fund.

Answer

Emma Hardy
The Government is investing £1.8 million through the Water Restoration Fund (WRF) and Water Environment Improvement Fund (WEIF) for locally-led chalk stream clean-up projects. On 20 January this year the Government announced that it is reinvesting £29 mi...

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