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 Section 20 Water Resources Operating Agreement relating to Kielder Reservoir with any information which might compromise national security or public safety redacted.

The Environment Agency does not plan to publish the Section 20 Kielder Reservoir Operating Agreement because the document also contains commercially sensitive information.