Water Abstraction: Licensing

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to improve the responsiveness of the abstraction licensing system.

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Timeline

1. 28 August 2026

   Written question

   To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to improve the responsiveness of the abstraction licensing system.

   Source: Commons

2. 4 September 2026

   Answer

   The Government is acting to create a more dynamic abstraction licensing system. We plan to bring abstraction and impoundment regulation into the Environmental Permitting Regulations, providing a more flexible legislative framework. The Environment Agency ...

   Source: Written answer

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• Ben Obese-Jecty · Conservative · Commons
• · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Answering body
• Emma Hardy · Labour · Answering member

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