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Water Companies: Regulation

Asked by Martin WrigleyLiberal DemocratDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 16 December 2025UIN 97373

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish implementing regulations and updated statutory guidance for water-company regulation, governance changes and environmental monitoring under the Water (Special

Answered by Emma Hardy

Guidance is being developed by Defra and the regulators and will be published in due course, as will any enacting implementing regulations, as needed.

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