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

To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in preparing legislation to amend the uprating mechanism in the Water Supply and Sewerage Services (Customer Service Standards) (Amendment) Regulations 2025; and when they expect this work to be completed.

The updated Guaranteed Standards Scheme regulations in 2025 introduced new standards and an indexation provision to automatically uprate payments in line with the Consumer Prices Index. The department are preparing further amendments to the regulations, including to the uprating mechanism, which will be completed in due course.