Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will publish the data on which they based the decision to withdraw funding for Anglian Water's waste water treatment plant relocation.

The cost to government of relocating the Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Plant with funding from the Housing Infrastructure Fund had increased from £277m to over £700m. This was unaffordable within the programme budget, and a decision was made, in line with standard Housing Infrastructure Fund processes, to withdraw the funding.