Consultation outcome

Water supply and sewerage licensing: updating security and emergency measures directions

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 2 August 2017
• Last updated: 20 October 2017 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Summary of responses and government response

PDF, 503 KB, 11 pages

Detail of outcome

We received 9 responses to this consultation. Following this response, the Directions will be laid in both Houses of Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales. We anticipate the Directions will come into force on 1 January 2018.

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Original consultation

Summary

Seeking views on updating the Security and Emergency Measures (Water Undertakers) Directions to take into account the new WSSL regime.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
1 August 2017 to 11:45pm on 29 August 2017

Consultation description

We want to know what you think about our proposals to update the wording used in the Security and Emergency Measures (Water Undertakers) Direction 2006. We propose changing ‘licensed water supplier’ to ‘water supply licensee’ to take into account changes to the water industry as part of the WSSL regime.

We’re also seeking views on our proposal to issue a new general direction which would apply to all water supply licensees meeting certain conditions. This general direction would replace specific directions that have previously been issued to individual companies.

These directions set out how we expect water suppliers to respond to an emergency.

Published 2 August 2017
Last updated 20 October 2017 + show all updates

1. 20 October 2017

   Summary of responses including government response added.

2. 8 August 2017

   Changed the closing date as it was incorrectly showing 28th August - closing date is 29th August 2017.

3. 2 August 2017

   First published.