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Sewage Discharges

e-petition debate on Wednesday, 12 October 2022, in the House of Commons, led by Huw Merriman. The answering member was Trudy Harrison.
Motion that this House has considered sewage discharges. Agreed to on question.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

720 cc110-136WH 

Session

2022-23

Chamber / Committee

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

Huw Merriman | 720 cc110-2WH (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House has considered sewage discharges.

It is a pleasure to ...

Julie Elliott | 720 c112WH (Link to this contribution)

As everyone can see, this is a highly subscribed debate. If everyone gets to speak—I want to try ...


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Navendu Mishra | 720 cc112-3WH (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Ms Elliott. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I thank the hon. Member...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 720 cc113-4WH (Link to this contribution)

I have public sewage discharge meetings concerning my rivers. I get the water companies, the Envi...

Grahame Morris | 720 c114WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott, and I congratulate the hon. Member...

Caroline Dinenage | 720 cc114-5WH (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman) for securing the...

Margaret Greenwood | 720 c115WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott.

Over the summer, we saw mult...

David Johnston | 720 cc115-6WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott.

We have too much sewage goin...

Tim Farron | 720 c116WH (Link to this contribution)

Thank you for chairing this debate, Ms Elliott, and I also thank the hon. Member for Bexhill and ...

Alex Chalk | 720 cc116-7WH (Link to this contribution)

It is pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Me...

Meg Hillier | 720 c117WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott. I am proud to represent the River ...

Maria Caulfield | 720 cc117-8WH (Link to this contribution)

May I start by pleading with colleagues about the tone of this debate? We are legislators, not po...

Rebecca Long Bailey | 720 c118WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman) for securing this important debate....

Steve Double | 720 cc118-9WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott. We need to be absolutely clear: no...

Sarah Green | 720 cc119-120WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott. For my constituents, this issue is...

Rebecca Pow | 720 c120WH (Link to this contribution)

I will get straight to the point. For the record, this Government did not vote to allow raw sewag...

Fleur Anderson | 720 cc120-1WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Elliott. I thank all the 111,000 people across...

Anthony Browne | 720 c121WH (Link to this contribution)

My constituency of South Cambridgeshire is home to many beautiful chalk streams: the Mel, the She...

Ruth Cadbury | 720 cc121-2WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman) for introducing this debate. I shar...

Jeremy Hunt | 720 cc122-3WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman), and the Chair of the Env...

Mick Whitley | 720 c123WH (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate the hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman) on securing this important d...

Mick Whitley | 720 c123WH (Link to this contribution)

Sorry. The last thing I will say is: bring the water back into public ownership.

3.14 pm

Philip Dunne | 720 cc123-4WH (Link to this contribution)

My congratulations to my office neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw ...

Caroline Ansell | 720 cc124-5WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott. I congratulate my constituency nex...

Sally-Ann Hart | 720 c125WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott. I wish to put on record the deeply...

Gagan Mohindra | 720 cc125-6WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under you chairmanship, Ms Elliott. I start by thanking my hon. Friend ...

Anna Firth | 720 c126WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliot. I thank my hon. Friend the Member f...

Cherilyn Mackrory | 720 cc126-7WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman) for securing this debate;...

Julie Elliott | 720 c127WH (Link to this contribution)

We have managed that on time. I call the SNP spokesperson, Alan Brown.

3.26 pm

Alan Brown | 720 cc127-130WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott. I commend you on getting so many s...

Alex Sobel | 720 cc128-131WH (Link to this contribution)

First, I congratulate you, Ms Elliott, on the way that you have chaired this debate and on gettin...

Fay Jones | 720 c131WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman will know that the Environment Act 2021 does not apply to Wales, where his par...

Alex Sobel | 720 cc131-2WH (Link to this contribution)

Of course, there are not any shareholders in Welsh Water; it is owned by the people of Wales. On ...

Julie Elliott | 720 cc132-3WH (Link to this contribution)

Before I call the Minister to respond, I remind her to allow time for Huw Merriman to wind up at ...

Trudy Harrison | 720 c133WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time in my position in DEFRA, Ms ...

John Hayes | 720 c133WH (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Philip Dunne) raised the possibility of water compani...

Trudy Harrison | 720 cc133-4WH (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend raises an excellent point. Reforms are taking place in the Department for Le...

Ruth Cadbury | 720 c134WH (Link to this contribution)

Could the Minister please remember that tideway starts downstream of Mogden sewage works, which i...

Trudy Harrison | 720 cc134-5WH (Link to this contribution)

I am happy to pick that up separately. I have not got time to go into the detail now, but I would...

Alan Brown | 720 c135WH (Link to this contribution)

Will the Minister going to invest in the right to connection issue because at the moment, as an o...

Trudy Harrison | 720 cc135-6WH (Link to this contribution)

There was also reference to privatisation. There has been over £30 billion of investment in the e...

Huw Merriman | 720 c136WH (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Ms Elliott, for chairing us so efficiently. I thank the Minister for the responses she...

Legislation

Environment Act 2021
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