HC Deb 15 March 1978 vol 946 c261W
Mr. Tim Smith

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the excess of revenue over expenditure for each of the regional water authorities in 1976–77.

Mr. Denis Howell

The surplus of income over revenue expenditure, after allocations to reserves and excluding balances brought forward from the previous year, for the year 1976–77 for each of the water authorities was:

£000
North West 6,416
Northumbrian 4,845
Yorkshire 3,584
Severn Trent 20,843
Anglian 5,944
Thames 17,648
Southern 1,238
South West 509
Welsh National Water Development Authority 1,662

The Wessex water authority in that year had a deficit of £133,000.