Water Companies: Fines

(asked on 7th September 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 estimate she has made of the total sums collected in fines to water companies by the Environment Agency in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 19th September 2023

The Environment Agency collects data of the number and total amount fines issued to Water Companies following prosecution. Since 2010, the totals and amounts are follows:

Year

Number of fines

Total sum of fines

2010

43

£368,500.00

2011

85

£924,820.38

2012

78

£806,100.00

2013

41

£802,000.00

2014

29

£1,674,000.00

2015

16

£2,334,500.00

2016

13

£6,560,000.00

2017

18

£21,589,334.00

2018

5

£427,000.00

2019

5

£3,097,000.00

2020

4

£844,000.00

2021

9

£102,490,000.00

2022

11

£4,198,750.00

2023 (to date)

11

£9,227,333.33

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