Correspondence

Water industry: letter to the Environment Agency on water company regulation and enforcement

Letter from the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to the Environment Agency on environmental regulation and enforcement in relation to the water sector in England.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 11 December 2023

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Letter to Environment Agency on water company regulation and enforcement

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The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Steve Barclay, has written to the Environment Agency to set out his expectations of the Environment Agency in holding water companies to account in relation to their environmental performance. He highlights the implementation of new enforcement powers by the Environment Agency, which remove the cap on variable monetary penalties (VMPs), so that these are unlimited, and expand the scope of offences to which these penalties apply.

Published 11 December 2023