Water Abstraction: Licensing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Water Abstraction Licenses were operational in each of the last 10 financial years.
Answered by Emma Hardy
The table below shows the number of water abstraction licences (temporary, full and transfer) live for all or part of the financial year for each of the last ten financial years.
Financial year | No. of water abstraction licences |
1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015 | 18234 |
1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 | 18027 |
1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 | 17765 |
1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 | 17249 |
1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 | 17100 |
1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 | 16940 |
1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 | 17184 |
1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 | 17386 |
1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 | 17814 |
1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 | 17779 |
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