Water Abstraction: Licensing
(asked on 12th November 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Water Abstraction Licenses were not renewed in each of the last 10 financial years.
Answered by
Emma Hardy
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 20th November 2024
Financial Year | Number of water abstraction licences that were not renewed because no renewal application was received, the application was withdrawn or rejected as incomplete | Number of water abstraction licences that were not renewed because the application was refused |
2016-2017 | 145 | 0 |
2017-2018 | 191 | 7 |
2018-2019 | 47 | 1 |
2019-2020 | 39 | 0 |
2020-2021 | 40 | 0 |
2021-2022 | 71 | 1 |
2022-2023 | 43 | 0 |
2023-2024 | 102 | 2 |