Water Abstraction

(asked on 20th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to give the Environment Agency additional resources to carry out the inspection of water abstraction licences as a result of the Government's announcement of changes to the licensing system of 27 November 2017.


Answered by
Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 8th January 2018

The Environment Agency will use income from abstraction licensing charges to resource this work.

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