questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many licences for abstraction in chalk streams have been rescinded in each year since 2010.
answerText: A total of 110 licences affecting chalk streams have been revoked since 2010. A further 158 have been varied or reduced. The abstraction licence changes have returned over 37 billion litres of water per year to chalk catchments and prevented a further 110...
heading: Water Abstraction: Licensing