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Around £440 million worth of work will be brought forward into 2014-15 to help lessen the boom and bust impact of cyclical investment in the UK water industry.
Water minister Dan Rogerson confirmed the amount in a response to a written question in the House of Commons.
Previously, investment declined significantly in the last and first years of the five year regulatory period, while ramping up in the middle years, destabilising the supply chain.
Research by industry trade body British Water has shown that this cyclical spending has led to job losses of up to 40,000 in the sector.
The industry came to an agreement last October with regulator Ofwat, which allowed companies to include transition investment in their business plans for 2015-2020. However, a number of companies would not reveal how much they intended to set aside for transitional expenditure when they submitted their plans in December.
As part of the arrangement, water companies also committed to covering the cost of borrowing the money to do the work a year early.
The Cyclicality Working Group worked with Ofwat and the Treasury after a 2012 government report, made recommendations to smooth the AMP cycle.
Paul Mullord, a director at British Water, who first noticed the problem of cyclical spending in 1994, also welcomed the news.
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