South West Water: Infrastructure
(asked on 2nd April 2025) - 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 much funding South West Water was required to contribute to infrastructure to meet (a) environmental and (b) water quality standards between 2013 and 2025.
Answered by
Emma Hardy
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Since 2015 Ofwat has set total expenditure allowances which allow for companies to meet their obligations under the environment and water quality programmes. Based on data provided by Ofwat, the figures for South West Water are set out below.
South West Water expenditure on the environment and water quality programmes since 2015 | ||
2023-24 prices: | 2015-20 | 2020-24 |
Environment programme | £75.0 million | £174.2 million |
Water quality | £45.8 million | £107.4 million |
Total | £402.4 million | |
Between 2015 and 2024 the environment programme allowance for South West Water was £249.2 million and the water quality allowance was £153.2 million.
Due to figures being unable to be split between two price control periods, figures for 2013-15 cannot be provided.