FOI request (FOIR-693425487)

Private Water Supplies

Requested Thu 06 March 2025
Responded Thu 13 March 2025

I am conducting research into the issues facing enforcement of the Private Water Supplies (England) Regulations 2016 (As Amended) and would request that your local authority answer the following questions under the Freedom of Information Act regarding private water supplies that you regulate under the regulations (if applicable).

1. How many private water supplies as of January 2025 are regulated by your local authority?

2. How many staff are allocated within the local authority to carrying out all regulatory work for private water supplies as of January 2025?

3. How many private water supplies were sampled in 2024?

4. Out of these supplies, how many were classified as regulation 9 supplies as defined within the regulations?

5. From the answer to question 3, how many supplies were regulation 10 supplies?

6. How many risk assessments of private water supplies were conducted in 2024?

7. How many supplies required risk assessment in 2024?

8. How many supplies sampled in 2024 failed for microbiological or chemical parameters?

The aim of this study is to determine what challenges local authorities face in the enforcement of the regulations and how the regulation of private water supplies can be improved.

Response

Hastings Borough Council holds no information in respect of this request.