Ofwat: Strategic Priorities

I thought the Environmental Audit Committee’s report was a model of its kind. I noted in particul...

My right hon. Friend tempts me to rewrite my speech from scratch. First, I thank him for his comm...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend for his extraordinary campaigning on this issue, which has ch...

I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for introducing the next comment in my speech, which w...

Not many in the House will have been able to attend the reception for World Oceans Day, where I c...

Mr Deputy Speaker, I am rather concerned that my speech has been leaked to other Members of the H...

Sewage discharges, at least in the River Wye, on which my right hon. Friend’s report brilliantly ...

My right hon. Friend is right to refer to other polluters. If we take a look across the country a...

I agree with my right hon. Friend’s point about Ofwat, but there is also another issue here relat...

Again, my hon. Friend has made a point that I was intending to make in my speech. In fact, it is ...

Order. Mr Dunne, could you please face the front of the House, so that your wonderful voice can b...

I do apologise, Mr Deputy Speaker. I will address you, as I should do.

I was just saying ho...

It is not my intention to go into a party debate, but does the right hon. Gentleman agree that th...

I would like to say to the hon. Lady that my remarks about people misinterpreting what is being d...

I welcome the right hon. Gentleman’s mention of the Tideway tunnel. It is an enormously expensive...

I bow to the hon. Lady’s knowledge of her constituency and the area around it. I am informed that...

I recently hosted a meeting with the Consumer Council for Water, which is looking at the introduc...

Indeed. The Consumer Council for Water is a statutory consultee with Ofwat, so it will be able to...

I congratulate and thank the right hon. Member for Ludlow (Philip Dunne) for all his campaigning ...

Does the hon. Lady share my view that one of the things the Government should closely consider is...

I thank the right hon. Member for his intervention, and I think that is an exceptionally good ide...

The hon. Member may not be as familiar with the Environment Act as I am, but it is made very clea...

I thank the right hon. Member for that intervention. I was not aware of that, and I am grateful t...

I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Philip Dunne) for everything he has done. I s...

My hon. Friend is so familiar with Herefordshire and the angling there that he needs no encourage...

My right hon. Friend demonstrates huge knowledge because the Tweed does indeed have commissioners...

It is a pleasure to follow so many people who are passionate when it comes to talking about water...

Has my hon. Friend considered the proposals for a social tariff to address some of those problems...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising social tariffs. We need the proper legislative framew...

I have had huge frustrations with the Environment Agency in my constituency of St Albans, but I w...

I am indeed, and I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention. We need to ensure that powers go wi...

Flooding is one of the most significant issues in my central London constituency. I want Ofwat to...

I thank the Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, the right hon. Member for Ludlow (Philip ...

Does the hon. Lady agree that rather than new technology, new data and new mindsets, what is need...

The hon. Gentleman has made an important point. I shall say more about resident engagement shortl...

I hear what the hon. Lady is saying. I have a lot of respect for the Environment Agency, but I al...

The hon. Member is right, and I should have included the Environment Agency in the list of regula...

I start by welcoming the Government’s strategic policy statement for Ofwat. This is clearly an im...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I have almost finished.

That is fine; I will intervene now. What my hon. Friend is suggesting, I think rightly, is that t...

Absolutely correct. I thank my hon. Friend, but I will still conclude.

In conclusion, I wel...

I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Philip Dunne) for securing this deba...

May I say how lucky that drop of water is if it flows through the Hampshire Avon, one of the fine...

It would be very lucky, except that it would get loaded with phosphate on the way, and that is th...

It is an absolute pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Devizes (Danny Kruger). I want...

I sincerely thank the right hon. Member for Ludlow (Philip Dunne) for all the work that he has do...

The hon. Gentleman is making an impressive speech and I am grateful for his kind comments about o...

I think the figure I quoted was just dividends to shareholders, but I will check on that. I under...

I stand here not in my algal bloom dress but in what I think of as my biodiverse dress. I congrat...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for taking such an early intervention, but as she has mentioned t...

I thank my right hon. Friend for pointing out the opportunity to do a little canvassing.

Th...

I thank the Minister for referring to the Act, but for the purposes of Hansard and the debate, ca...

That would be a very long answer—I could write to the hon. Lady with all the detail in the Enviro...

The Minister will be aware that our concern is that we should be banning those companies from all...

Of course, we are hoping not that sewage discharges will be reduced by one hour, but that they wi...

I thank the Minister for giving way, and she has quite rightly picked up that I have referred to ...

I thank the hon. Member, and I did write to her; that is right. Obviously, the Chancellor has alr...

The Minister is right about the scourge of wet wipes: they are plastic and they cause damage to e...

That is a horrible, graphic description, and we also need to make people aware that they should n...

A brief conclusion from Philip Dunne.

4.45 pm

Very brief, Madam Deputy Speaker. Thank you for calling me and for chairing our debate. In essenc...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I wonder if I can take your advice on how I can raise ...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his point of order, which is disturbing to say the least. In...