Water Supplies (North-East)

HC Deb 06 June 1990 vol 173 c638W

Mr. Ronnie Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many households in the north-east were disconnected from their water supplies in 1987–88 and 1988–89.

Mr. Heathcoat-Amory

Information on disconnections is available by water company areas only. The numbers of household disconnections by the former Northumbrian and Yorkshire water authorities and by the statutory water companies (SWCs) operating in their areas were as follows:

	1987–88	1988–89
Northumbrian WA	480	770
Yorkshire WA	560	945
SWCs1
Hartlepools	n/a	120
Newcastle	n/a	558
Sunderland	n/a	70
York	n/a	79
1 Total disconnections, household and non-household.