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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department remains committed to developing a National Policy Statement for water supply for infrastructure; what recent assessment she has made of the need for such a statement; and if she will make a statement.

The Government remains committed to making a decision on whether to develop a National Policy Statement for water supply infrastructure. We are still assessing the evidence to support this decision.