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Water Companies: Sewage Discharge

Debate on Monday, 15 November 2021, in the House of Commons, led by Tonia Antoniazzi. The answering member was Rebecca Pow.
Motion, That this House has considered e-petition 582336, relating to the discharge of sewage by water companies. Agreed to on question.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

703 cc132-158WH 

Session

2021-22

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall
E-petition debate: ban raw sewage discharges
Friday, 12 November 2021
Research briefings

Proceeding contributions

Ian Jnr Paisley | 703 c133WH (Link to this contribution)

Before we begin, I remind Members that they are expected to wear face coverings when they are not...

Tonia Antoniazzi | 703 cc133-5WH (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House has considered e-petition 582336, relating to the discharge ...


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Gareth Thomas | 703 c135WH (Link to this contribution)

Does my hon. Friend also think there should be a requirement on water companies to report that in...

Tonia Antoniazzi | 703 c135WH (Link to this contribution)

That is key. Accountability is needed. If we are to move forward, those consumer committees that ...

Maria Miller | 703 cc135-7WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a great pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Paisley, and to have the opportunity to debate...

Ian Jnr Paisley | 703 c136WH (Link to this contribution)

I am not imposing a formal time limit, but hon. Members should keep it in mind that if they take ...

Tim Farron | 703 cc136-9WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley; thank you very much for call...

Philip Dunne | 703 c139WH (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for allowing me to intervene; he is making a very import...

Tim Farron | 703 c139WH (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful for the right hon. Gentleman’s intervention and for his work in this area high...

Ian Jnr Paisley | 703 c139WH (Link to this contribution)

To get the remaining 12 Back-Bench speeches in, I will have to cut the time limit for speeches to...

Robbie Moore | 703 cc139-141WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley.

I thank the hon. Member for ...

Rebecca Long Bailey | 703 c141WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley. I thank my hon. Friend the Member ...

Roger Gale | 703 cc141-2WH (Link to this contribution)

This year, Southern Water was fined £90 million for pumping raw sewage into the sea. To take the ...

Mike Amesbury | 703 cc142-3WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley. I thank my hon. Friend the Member ...

Philip Dunne | 703 c143WH (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful to you, Mr Paisley, for allowing me to contribute briefly to this important de...

Philip Dunne | 703 cc143-4WH (Link to this contribution)

I was intending to intervene, but if I have a couple of minutes, I will take advantage of them.

Kerry McCarthy | 703 c144WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Paisley. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member fo...

Kerry McCarthy | 703 cc144-5WH (Link to this contribution)

I would rather not, because I have only a few minutes, and the right hon. Lady has already spoken...

Ian Jnr Paisley | 703 c145WH (Link to this contribution)

Order. We have a Division in the House and will come back in 15 minutes.

6.45 pm

Sitt...

Kerry McCarthy | 703 c145WH (Link to this contribution)

As I was saying before I was very rudely interrupted: I wanted to talk about particular local con...

Kerry McCarthy | 703 cc145-6WH (Link to this contribution)

I will give up on trying to talk about Conham River Park for a moment and talk instead about Warl...

Helen Hayes | 703 cc146-7WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Paisley. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Gower...

Gareth Thomas | 703 c147WH (Link to this contribution)

I appreciate the opportunity to speak in this debate. I join others in congratulating my hon. Fri...

Philip Dunne | 703 c147WH (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for allowing me to defend my remarks. I made no remarks ...

Gareth Thomas | 703 cc147-8WH (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Gentleman will have to forgive me. I was concentrating on other things in the 10 y...

Ian Jnr Paisley | 703 c148WH (Link to this contribution)

I call Mr Grahame Morris. If it is more comfortable for you to remain seated for your speech, I a...

Grahame Morris | 703 c148WH (Link to this contribution)

That is very kind of you, Mr Paisley. I apologise to you and other Members. I have either a trapp...

Ian Jnr Paisley | 703 c148WH (Link to this contribution)

It is very in vogue to have a bad back at the moment.

Grahame Morris | 703 cc148-9WH (Link to this contribution)

So long as I am either up or down, I am okay; it is getting up and down that is the problem. Than...

Jeremy Corbyn | 703 cc149-150WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Gower (Tonia Antoniazzi) for introducing the debate on the ...

Rosie Duffield | 703 cc150-1WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley, and I thank my hon. Friend the Mem...

Luke Pollard | 703 cc151-2WH (Link to this contribution)

This has been a good debate so far, and one that has reflected the strength of feeling in all our...

Maria Miller | 703 c152WH (Link to this contribution)

Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?

Luke Pollard | 703 c152WH (Link to this contribution)

I am halfway through a sentence, but I am happy to give way.

Maria Miller | 703 c152WH (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Gentleman not regret some of the misinformation that drove so much fear and anxiety...

Luke Pollard | 703 cc152-4WH (Link to this contribution)

If the right hon. Member had waited for the rest of my sentence, she would have found that I agre...

Rebecca Pow | 703 cc154-5WH (Link to this contribution)

It is, as ever, an absolute pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Paisley. I thank all hon. Member...

Rebecca Pow | 703 c155WH (Link to this contribution)

So I am not going to take an intervention on that.

I will also say that the issue is devolv...

Tonia Antoniazzi | 703 c155WH (Link to this contribution)

I am leading the debate on behalf of the Petitions Committee, but it is a UK-wide issue, which I ...

Rebecca Pow | 703 c155WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Lady for that; we are at pains to work with the devolved Administrations, becaus...

Helen Hayes | 703 c155WH (Link to this contribution)

The Minister said at the start of her remarks that she thought the petition had probably been sta...

Rebecca Pow | 703 cc155-6WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Lady for clarifying. As I said, I share the passion of the people who signed the...

Luke Pollard | 703 c156WH (Link to this contribution)

Can the Minister square these two challenges? She has told us that it is going to cost us £660 bi...

Rebecca Pow | 703 cc156-8WH (Link to this contribution)

I do not think the hon. Gentleman is really listening to what I am saying. What I said is that th...

Legislation

Environment Act 2021
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