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HANSARDThames WaterDoes the Secretary of State agree with Thames Water’s own expert adviser Teneo—on page 193 of the expert advice report—that the ultimate cost to the Government if the company goes…03 Jun 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [Lords]Does my hon. Friend agree that we need to do more to protect section 22 community bus services such as West Oxfordshire Community Transport, which are now facing a mountain of…02 Jun 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsThe Minister and many hon. Members have mentioned teaching support staff, who make up half the school workforce but have no statutory pay body to represent them. Many support…22 May 2025HANSARD UK-EU Summit: Policy PrioritiesI thank the right hon. Member for his leadership and hard work on the Committee. I welcome the move this week, and the set of aspirational statements of intent that go in the…22 May 2025HANSARDAccess to NHS DentistryThere seems to be a consensus across the House that the NHS dental contract is broken. That is the consensus across the country as well, including in my constituency. If there is…22 May 2025HANSARDDefence Sector JobsThe Times has reported that the UK has fewer than 10 tanks stationed in Estonia and that troop numbers have been cut from 1,650 in April 2022 to around 1,000 today. By comparison,…19 May 2025HANSARD Brain Tumours: Research and TreatmentI too thank and commend the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) for securing the debate. It has been a pleasure to work with her and we are all in awe of…08 May 2025HANSARDSewageI thank my hon. Friend, and, yes, I absolutely do. Ofwat is also failing to innovate. It appears to do little, if anything, to push companies to do this. This is so critical…23 Apr 2025HANSARDSewageI will make that three. Thank you very much, and over to you.23 Apr 2025HANSARDSewageI am delighted to speak on the issue of how we can fix our broken water and sewerage sector, and get serious about cleaning up our rivers and lakes. I thank my hon. Friend the…23 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceDoes the hon. Gentleman agree that adopting a policy of managed decline, as the Conservatives did in Oxfordshire in 2014, is a disaster, and is really not the appropriate way to…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Thames Water: Government SupportWill the Minister give way?03 Apr 2025HANSARD Thames Water: Government SupportI want to play back what the Minster just said. It is up to either Ofwat or the Secretary of State to apply to the court to put the company into special administration. As the…03 Apr 2025HANSARD Thames Water: Government SupportMany apologies to you, Ms Lewell, and to the Minister. The signal that the Minister and the Government are sending to this and other regulated sectors is simply terrible. All that…03 Apr 2025HANSARD Thames Water: Government SupportNone of the 60 amendments in the Commons, or however many there were, was accepted. The rejected proposals included putting flow meters on the outflows of sewage treatment works,…03 Apr 2025HANSARD Thames Water: Government SupportYes, it does. I think Ofwat is doing exactly what the company’s creditors want it to do, and I wonder why that is happening, because it should not be. Finally, there is a failure…03 Apr 2025HANSARD Thames Water: Government SupportIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Sutton and Cheam (Luke Taylor) for securing this debate on Government support…03 Apr 2025HANSARD Thames Water: Government SupportI said that she is the chair of Water UK, which is the trade body for water companies, so I think that follows.03 Apr 2025HANSARD Thames Water: Government SupportTo be clear, I said that Ruth Kelly is the chair of Water UK—I said exactly that.03 Apr 2025HANSARD Thames Water: Government SupportCould the hon. Member elaborate a little bit on that £250 billion number and where it comes from?03 Apr 2025