Thames Water

(asked on 23rd January 2023) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the number of leaks and pipe bursts reported by Thames Water in (a) Streatham constituency, (c) London and (c) England in the last five years.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 31st January 2023

The most recent leakage data water companies reported is for the financial year ending March 2021. The reported data is at water company level. Streatham is served by Thames Water, who have reduced their leakage by 10.2% during 2021-22 in line with their performance commitments made to Ofwat.

The Government has set clear expectations that water companies should reduce bursts by 12% and cut their leakage by 16% by 2025 and 50% by 2050. Industry wide leakage has reduced by 11% since 2017-18.

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