Water Abstraction: Licensing

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many licences for abstraction in chalk streams have been rescinded in each year since 2010.

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1. 11 March 2024

   Written question

   To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many licences for abstraction in chalk streams have been rescinded in each year since 2010.

   Source: Commons

2. 18 March 2024

   Answer

   A total of 110 licences affecting chalk streams have been revoked since 2010. A further 158 have been varied or reduced. The abstraction licence changes have returned over 37 billion litres of water per year to chalk catchments and prevented a further 110...

   Source: Written answer

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