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

To ask His Majesty's Government how many on-farm reservoirs have been built in each of the past five years.

Approximately 34 newly built Large Raised Reservoirs (reservoirs with an above ground capacity of more than 25,000 cubic metres of water) have been built on farms in England in the last five years.

Note: the final certificate is the document that marks the end of the ‘under construction’ phase for a reservoir under the Reservoirs Act 1975.