Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the maintenance cost to councils of ageing water infrastructure.

The department collects data about local authorities’ expenditure and income relating to all services through the General Fund Revenue Outturn data collection. All expenditure data on environmental and regulatory services for 2024-25 are published within the local authority revenue expenditure and financing statistics and can be found in the RO5 tables. This does not include a specific breakdown for maintaining water infrastructure.