Water industry: letter to the Environment Agency on water company regulation and enforcement

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Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Steve Barclay, has written to the Environment Agency to outline his expectations for regulating and enforcing water company environmental performance. The letter highlights the implementation of new enforcement powers, which remove the cap on variable monetary penalties (VMPs) and expand the scope of offenses subject to these penalties.