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HANSARDWater Companies: Water Pollution and OverflowsNinety three per cent of bathing water around our coast is good or excellent. It is a tremendous record.19 Oct 2023HANSARDWater Companies: Water Pollution and OverflowsI had a meeting about the Thames tideway tunnel yesterday. That amazing project has already increased wildlife so extraordinarily at the end by the Lee tunnel that there are…19 Oct 2023HANSARDCanal & River Trust FundingI thank my hon. Friend for all the valuable work he does in that capacity. That subject is still under discussion.19 Oct 2023HANSARDResources and Waste Strategy: Extended Producer ResponsibilityIn July, we announced the deferral of the producer payments under the extended producer responsibility scheme, moving them to October 2025. I must say that that was at the request…19 Oct 2023HANSARDResources and Waste Strategy: Extended Producer ResponsibilityDetails of the simpler recycling system will be announced shortly, but I can tell the House that it will mean that all local authorities will collect the same materials. Of…19 Oct 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat clarification will be coming very soon and within it the new simpler recycling approach will include mandatory collection of food waste.19 Oct 2023HANSARDWater Companies: Water Pollution and OverflowsI am pleased that my hon. Friend has asked that question, because no Government in history have taken a more comprehensive approach to tackling water pollution. This Conservative…19 Oct 2023HANSARDSewage DischargesThe Ofwat report on sewage discharges, published in September, was extremely disappointing. I have written to all the water companies that were highlighted as lagging, and I have…19 Oct 2023HANSARDSewage DischargesI agree with my hon. Friend.19 Oct 2023HANSARDFlood-risk Areas: Rural CommunitiesI thank my hon. Friend for the great work that he does with the partnership. Both the Secretary of State and I have visited his constituency. There are funds available: the £25…19 Oct 2023HANSARDFlood-risk Areas: Rural CommunitiesI have visited my hon. Friend’s constituency, and I know that she has done a great deal of work on the issue of flooding. The Environment Agency works in partnership with the Met…19 Oct 2023HANSARDFlood-risk Areas: Rural CommunitiesThat is exactly the Environment Agency’s duty, and it works very hard on the asset management side of our flood assets, which are a very large proportion of our £5.2 billion fund.19 Oct 2023HANSARD South West Water: Environmental PerformanceI will do my final paragraph on this subject and then I will give way. In April 2023, the Government published their “Plan for Water”, which is a comprehensive strategy to…19 Sept 2023HANSARD South West Water: Environmental PerformanceI thank the hon. Gentleman for that question. One cannot take a court case without sufficient evidence; that is absolutely critical to any court case. I will come on to that, the…19 Sept 2023HANSARD South West Water: Environmental PerformanceMr Hollobone, it is a pleasure to have you in the Chair today to preside over this important debate about one of our water companies, South West Water. Like my hon. Friend the…19 Sept 2023HANSARD South West Water: Environmental PerformanceI will carry on for a moment. On storm overflows and discharges in the south-west, Ofwat announced, as part of a £2.2 billion accelerated infrastructure package that this…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Water Resources Management Plan: TeddingtonIt is a pleasure, Sir Christopher, to have you in the Chair. I thank the hon. Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) for securing the debate and giving us the opportunity to…06 Sept 2023HANSARD Water Resources Management Plan: TeddingtonI thank the hon. Lady for that. This is long term and strategic—that is what we have to talk about now in terms of water supply. I am concerned that it keeps being described as…06 Sept 2023HANSARDDraft Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2023I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention. My officials have close and continuing engagement with local authorities. We understand that there are a whole lot of different…05 Sept 2023HANSARDDraft Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2023I thank the hon. Lady. I have met representatives of the company—as have many colleagues, I believe. It has a really interesting model. In fairness, it was ahead of the game in…05 Sept 2023