HC Deb 25 April 1990 vol 171 c250W
25. Mr. Harris

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what information he has on the level of investment planned by the water industry over the next 10 years in the sewerage network.

46. Mr. Roger King

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what information he has on the level of investment planned by the water industry over the next 10 years in sewage treatment.

Mr. Trippier

Of the total investment of £26.3 billion allowed for in determining charges limits for the water industry in England and Wales some £5.3 billion was for investment at sewage treatment works, £5.7 billion for investment in the sewerage network and £1.2 billion for investment in sea and estuarial outfalls. Discussions with the water industry are now in hand to revise these investment programmes to take account of the Secretary of State's recent announcement that in future all significant discharges of sewage to sea should be treated and that dumping of sewage sludge at sea should be ended.

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