§ Mrs. BrintonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what plans he has to amend the programme of work which water companies are being requested to carry out on the environment during the period 2000 to 2005 following the recent adjustment to the cost of capital made by the Director General of Water Services for the 1999 periodic review. [91798]
§ Mr. MealeThe Government's guidance to the Director General on the environmental and water quality improvements to be delivered by 2005 was published under the title "Raising the Quality" in September 1998. More detailed proposals for individual company programmes were announced on 1 March 1999.
These programmes and the cost of capital will both be factors which the Director General takes into account in the draft price determinations he plans to announce on 27 July.