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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to amend the private sewer transfer regulations to allow the transfer of private sewerage pumps to be regulated water companies by residents in a different curtilage.

There are no current plans to amend the Water Industry (Schemes for Adoption of Private Sewers) Regulations 2011, which provided for the transfer of eligible private sewers and lateral drains to water and sewerage companies on 1 October 2011 and the transfer of pumping stations on 1 October 2016.

The last Government carried out an extensive review of private sewer ownership, including a full public consultation on the draft regulations. The issues raised during the consultation were considered in preparing the final regulations.