To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give figures for the number of disconnections in England of domestic water supply for each year since 1987.

[holding answer 26 April 1993]: The information is set out in the following table. Information on disconnections prior to privatisation was only collected by the Department for water authorities as part of the water authorities' annual charges returns, and comprises total disconnections (domestic and non-domestic). Information on statutory water company disconnections was not collected by the Department prior to 1988–89.