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HANSARD Water Companies(Urgent Question) : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if she will make a statement on the performance of the water sector.08 Jun 2026HANSARD Water CompaniesI thank the Minister both for her response and for putting up with me—I am a bit of a broken record on this issue. We are all well aware that water is essential to life itself—to…08 Jun 2026HANSARD South East Water: Disruption of SupplySouth East Water is one of a number of privatised water companies that are responsible for selling off 35 reservoirs since 2017, and those companies have not built a single one…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble Address MotionI have listened to the Minister, and some of his points were relevant, but this is not just about technicalities and lapses of judgment. This is about a wider, rotten political…11 Mar 2026HANSARDMinistry of Defence: Palantir ContractsThis deal with Palantir stinks. It stank before Peter Mandelson was involved, and it stank when those now on the Opposition Benches initiated the NHS and defence contracts. Peter…10 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonObviously, people here want to get to the bottom of this, in terms of the accountability of the Prime Minister and other elements in No. 10, and of course they want to get to the…04 Feb 2026HANSARDUniversal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) BillWe on the Labour Benches at least understand the historical consistency:186 years ago the Tories made economic arguments against stopping children being sent up chimneys, and 186…03 Feb 2026HANSARDUniversal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) BillI am listening to the hon. Gentleman. Conservative Members always seem to portray this as an individual moral failing. That is how they see welfare, when actually it is about a…03 Feb 2026HANSARDWater White PaperAfter 18 months and an independent inquiry, the Government’s answer is more regulation, not enforcing the law as it is. Not one water company has lost its licence, yet we think…21 Jan 2026HANSARDHospitality Sector and SMEsIn Norwich there is a saying: there is a church for every Sunday and a pub for every day of the week. After 14 years of austerity, the numbers are a lot lower. After this Budget,…09 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe right hon. Member asked who will pay for the national living wage increase in the adult social care sector, but something he omitted—and it is quite telling—is the number of…02 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, which includes the donations for my work on public ownership of water, crowdfunders and my articles…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Point of Order: Rectification ProcedureOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I would like to apologise to the House for failing to declare an interest when making spoken contributions on 8 March 2023, 14 November…04 Sept 2025HANSARD Living Standards: East of EnglandI beg to move, That this House has considered living standards in the East of England. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Hobhouse. As I will be discussing…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Living Standards: East of EnglandI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention and for all his work in this area. Council homes are overwhelmingly the solution to this country’s housing problems. There is always…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Living Standards: East of EnglandI thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution. I do not raise this in this speech, but I think that one of the key ways of lifting people out of poverty is by strengthening…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Living Standards: East of EnglandThe hon. Gentleman is a champion of such issues in his constituency, and I agree: poverty is very often out of sight, out of mind. The dispersal of rural poverty makes it easier…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Living Standards: East of EnglandI thank my hon. Friend for an interesting contribution. I will take a time-out on the AI component. I think it has a place and could, I am sure, contribute something, but the real…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Independent Water CommissionI am afraid that the report feels like a missed opportunity for the Government to show the public whose side they are on. It entrenches a privatised model that has already failed…21 Jul 2025HANSARDFinancial Services ReformI just want to confirm that my name is Clive, not Cassandra, Lewis—and yet, I feel like the Trojan princess, forever warning of things that will go wrong but being ignored. Will…16 Jul 2025