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HANSARDWater Company Executives: AccountabilityUnder the previous Government, water bosses awarded themselves over £112 million in bonuses. Thanks to this Government’s Water (Special Measures) Act 2025, water company bosses…13 Nov 2025HANSARDWater Company Executives: AccountabilityI thank my hon. Friend for his doughty campaigning on this issue. We are already taking forward secondary legislation to ban plastic wet wipes, which are a major source of…13 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am delighted to lead the first all-woman ministerial team in a UK Department of State. My focus as the new Secretary of State is delivering the Government’s No. 1 mission of…13 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for campaigning on these issues. We have already banned bonuses in six water companies, including Anglian Water, as she will know, for not meeting our high…13 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis is a highly sensitive issue. The reasons for somebody taking their life are often very complex, and my heart goes out to every family devastated by these events. I am not…13 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI live in a rural area, represent a semi-rural seat, and have 89 farms in my constituency. I understand the pressures that farmers are under, but the catastrophic mistake made by…13 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsLike the hon. Member, I am appalled by this plastic pollution incident, which affects his constituency, nearby constituencies and Camber Sands. We are holding Southern Water to…13 Nov 2025HANSARD Living Standards: East of EnglandIt is a pleasure, as ever, to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Hobhouse. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich South (Clive Lewis) for securing this debate and the…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Living Standards: East of Englandindicated assent.03 Sept 2025HANSARDMoney Laundering and Terrorist FinancingThe integrity and resilience of the UK’s financial system are fundamental to our country’s prosperity and security. A strong financial system supports jobs, businesses and…17 Jul 2025HANSARDFinancial Services ReformWith permission, Mr Speaker, I shall update the House on the content of the Leeds reforms. The reforms encompass the Government’s financial services growth and competitiveness…16 Jul 2025HANSARDFinancial Services ReformWell, half of that was all right, I suppose. I do want to start constructively and thank the hon. Member for his welcome for some of the reforms. I will answer some of his…16 Jul 2025HANSARDFinancial Services ReformI thank my hon. Friend for that thoughtful question. I am happy to talk to the Committee about that in more detail. What I will say is that the Leeds reforms regulate for growth…16 Jul 2025HANSARDFinancial Services ReformWe have a very good deal with the EU, which we agreed in May this year and will continue to build on. I was pleased to have invited the European Commissioner for Financial…16 Jul 2025HANSARDFinancial Services ReformI could not agree more with my hon. Friend. We are intent on building the 1.5 million homes that we promised at the election. I remind the chuntering hon. Gentlemen on the…16 Jul 2025HANSARDFinancial Services ReformI refer the hon. Lady to page 63 of the strategy, which is very useful. It sets out an ambitious timeline for implementing the reforms that the Chancellor set out at the Mansion…16 Jul 2025HANSARDFinancial Services ReformAs was said previously, the package that we announced yesterday, as well as the announcement by the Bank of England and the FCA’s discussion paper, go to the heart of making sure…16 Jul 2025HANSARDFinancial Services ReformI reassure the right hon. Gentleman that we have not announced a listing review; we have announced a listings taskforce— [ Interruption. ] It is different, if hon. Members will…16 Jul 2025HANSARDFinancial Services ReformMy hon. Friend is a great campaigner on this issue, and he is absolutely right: this is not an easy nut to crack. We will work closely with the industry-led campaign. We need to…16 Jul 2025HANSARDFinancial Services ReformI reassure my hon. Friend that our agenda is to streamline regulation and make it more proportionate, and that there remain firm guardrails and affordability checks for mortgage…16 Jul 2025