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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the proportion of households in (a) each local authority (b) each region and (c) England that have been fitted with water meters.

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16 January 2018

Water companies provide data to the Environment Agency on households that have a meter fitted, as part of the annual review of their water resources management plans. The following table sets out the proportions by water company, as of March 2017.

Water Company	Percentage of household metering
Affinity Water	47
Anglian Water	77
Bristol Water	47
Cambridge Water	70
Essex & Suffolk Water	58
Northumbrian Water	32
Portsmouth Water	28
Bournemouth Water	69
SES Water*	50
Severn Trent	41
South East Water	76
South Staffordshire Water	35
South West Water	79
Southern Water	84
Thames Water	39
United Utilities	38
Wessex Water	60
Yorkshire Water	49
*England*	50

* previously Sutton & East Surrey Water

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