South West Water: Performance

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I am proud that the Conservative Government introduced the En...

My hon. Friend has rightly outlined that one of the reasons we can have this debate and there is ...

My hon. Friend makes a very good point.

I know that colleagues are awaiting the outcome of ...

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

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for East Devon (Simon Jupp) on leading the charge for De...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

The hon. Gentleman has had his chance to give his speech.

In the course of my remarks, I wi...

The hon. Member suggests that some solutions should be offered by other parties. I will give him ...

There was no question there. If the hon. Gentleman could not be bothered to put that point in his...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for East Devon (Simon Jupp) for this timely debate. It is clear...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will not.

We then have to ask whether the three regulators were asleep on the job. Why is...

On that point about investment, will the hon. Lady give way?

I am afraid not. Remember that one of the key shortfalls was the lack of communication. South Wes...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I am afraid not. When we looked at some of the shortfalls in the railways, the Government stepped...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship once more, Sir George. I am grateful for the op...

Let me show the scale at which this affects the region. Does the hon. Lady know that there are mo...

I did know those figures, but I am grateful that the hon. Gentleman has put them on the record so...

I can think of 56 billion reasons that show that the Government have acted on this issue: they ha...

I gently say to the hon. Gentleman that there has been 13 years of Tory government.

Is that enough?

I am just saying to him that it has been 13 years, and what have we seen? We have not seen the im...

It is a pleasure to serve under your leadership today, Sir George. Of course, I would like to beg...

I thank the Minister for giving way. While we all agree that data is crucial, there is the “So wh...

I thank the hon. Lady for that. I was going to mention it later, but what I was going to say was ...

I apologise for interrupting the Minister because she is making an excellent speech, but it is wo...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. That was coming later in my speech, but I will touch...

If the Government are so very keen on holding water companies’ feet to the fire, why did it requi...

That is a bit of a red herring, because all the things I have just outlined involve costed plans ...

I thank the Minister for her laser-like focus on water quality in the south-west. Her efforts are...