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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 2 February (HL4792), whether they will publish the abstraction licences relating to (1) Thirlmere Reservoir, and (2) Haweswater Reservoir, with the precise locations of the abstraction points redacted.

The Environment Agency does not publish the licences because these include the precise locations of abstraction points for public water supply which cannot be made generally available on national security and public safety grounds. Information on the Thirlmere and Haweswater reservoirs is already available at ‘Water Abstraction Licences - Environment Agency’ on gov.uk website.