Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his planning assumption is on the amount the Exchequer will receive in fines from water companies in each of the next five years.

We are unable to forecast sector specific fines, which are set as an outcome to legal proceedings and vary based on the offence.

In the period from 2010 to date, the Environment Agency have brought 190 successful prosecutions against the Water Companies with the Courts imposing fines of approximately £140 million.