Consultation outcome

Environment Agency charge proposal: cost of service

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

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Detail of outcome

The consultation response document includes a summary of feedback received and confirms the outcome of the consultation.

We have now published our updated charging scheme, and the revised charges will apply from 1 August 2025. You can view the following on GOV.UK:


Original consultation

Summary

We want your views on our proposed changes to our charges so we can continue to fully recover our costs.

This consultation was held on .

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

As a public body carrying out a regulatory service, the Environment Agency must follow HM Treasury guidance in managing public money which requires us to fully recover the cost of our service. With the increase in costs of delivering these services and inflationary pressures we have reviewed most of our regulatory charges in:

This consultation proposes an increase to these charges to accommodate the rise in the cost of our service, so we can continue to fully recover our costs. We invite you to share your view and thoughts about our proposal.

Updates to this page

Published 16 April 2025
Last updated 1 August 2025 show all updates
  1. Added the consultation response document.

  2. First published.

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