Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of secondary residences which do not have a water meter.
No such estimate has been made in relation to secondary residences.
Water companies provide data to the Environment Agency on households that have a meter fitted, as part of the annual review of their water resources management plans.
The following table sets out the proportions by water company, as at March 2017.
Water Company | Percentage of household metering |
Affinity Water | 47 |
Anglian Water | 77 |
Bristol Water | 47 |
Cambridge Water | 70 |
Essex & Suffolk Water | 58 |
Northumbrian Water | 32 |
Portsmouth Water | 28 |
Bournemouth Water | 69 |
SES Water* | 50 |
Severn Trent | 41 |
South East Water | 76 |
South Staffordshire Water | 35 |
South West Water | 79 |
Southern Water | 84 |
Thames Water | 39 |
United Utilities | 38 |
Wessex Water | 60 |
Yorkshire Water | 49 |
England | 50 |
* previously Sutton & East Surrey Water