Water Supply

(asked on 8th May 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Jim Cunningham Portrait
Jim Cunningham
(Labour - Coventry South)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the average real terms investment in the water supply infrastructure in each year since 1988; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 16th May 2018

Since privatisation in 1989 the water industry has invested approximately £4.9 billion per year on average (in 2016/17 prices) in both water supply and wastewater infrastructure.

Ofwat calculates that between the years of 1989 to 2018 the following amounts have been invested in water supply:

Year

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

Water Supply Capital Investment (£ billion)

1.9

2.4

2.9

2.8

2.5

2.0

2.1

2.6

2.6

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2.3

2.3

1.7

2.0

2.3

2.2

2.1

2.0

2.6

2.9

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2.7

2.3

1.9

2.2

2.2

2.1

2.1

1.6

1.9

2.4

2.2

Ofwat has also calculated the 1988 total capital expenditure for water and wastewater combined as £3.7 billion. A breakdown of capital expenditure between water supply and wastewater infrastructure is not available pre-1989.

These figures are in 2016/17 prices using RPI financial year average.

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