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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the value is of land (a) given and (b) sold by the Government to Thames Water since 2010.

The available records show that the Department has neither gifted nor sold any land to Thames Water since 2010.

Our principal non-departmental public body, the Environment Agency, has a closer working relationship with Water Companies. The relationship arises under the Water Industries Act 1989. The Agency has confirmed that since 2010 it has completed two transactions involving the transfer of infrastructure land to Thames Water listed:

a) Land given

A zero-sum transfer of an observation borehole site located on High Street, Meysey Hampton, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 5JP on 31/07/2015. This borehole site (located at a Thames Water pumping station complex) was incorrectly registered to the National Rivers Authority (as was) in 1989, and ownership was subsequently transferred to Thames Water in 2015.

b) Land sold

Disposal of a pumping station site adjacent to 21 Esher Road, East Molesey, Surrey, KT8 0AH on 04/09/2013 for £100.