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

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to improve drought resilience by speeding up the development of a new reservoir in Cambridgeshire.

This Government has already taken urgent steps to improve water security, including changing the law to slash red tape and speed up the planning process for the building of new reservoirs. To support this, £104 billion of private sector investment has been secured. This will fund essential infrastructure, including the Fens Reservoir, to help secure our future water supply.