Moved by
Lord Grantchester
71: After Clause 24, insert the following new Clause—
“Collection of debt from tenants
(1) The Water Industry Act 1991 is amended as follows.
(2) After section 147 (charging for emergency use of water) there is inserted—
“147AA Charges to recover losses from bad debt
(1) The Secretary of State, or the Authority, may prohibit losses to an undertaker due to non-payment of bills from being recovered through charges on customers.
(2) Where an undertaker does not have information about a resident in a property who is using water, if the occupants of that property are tenants, the landlord must, on request, provide to the undertaker contact details for the tenants.
(3) This section comes into force on the day after the Secretary of State has laid before Parliament a report setting out how water companies have failed to take action on these matters.””