Water Abstraction: Licensing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Water Abstraction Licenses were not renewed in each of the last 10 financial years.
Answered by Emma Hardy
Financial Year | Number of water abstraction licences that were not renewed because no renewal application was received, the application was withdrawn or rejected as incomplete | Number of water abstraction licences that were not renewed because the application was refused |
2016-2017 | 145 | 0 |
2017-2018 | 191 | 7 |
2018-2019 | 47 | 1 |
2019-2020 | 39 | 0 |
2020-2021 | 40 | 0 |
2021-2022 | 71 | 1 |
2022-2023 | 43 | 0 |
2023-2024 | 102 | 2 |
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