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HANSARDFishing IndustryI was going to come to the hon. Gentleman’s point later, but it is this Government who have increased the testing and brought in all the monitoring. We have a real focus on the…29 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceFor information, Thames Water itself has not paid any dividends for the last six years. Ofwat will rightly hold companies to account when they do not clearly demonstrate the link…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceThe hon. Gentleman will know that we have put huge pressure on the water companies, which now have to invest £56 billion in infrastructure to deal with sewage issues. If he wants…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResiliencePrivatisation has enabled clean and plentiful water to come out of our taps. It has unlocked £190 billion of funding to invest in the industry. That is the equivalent of £5…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceAll those plans are being assessed right now. The draft plans go to Ofwat, where they are analysed with a fine-toothed comb. All the things I have mentioned today will be…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceI am not aware of the situation the hon. Gentleman is referring to. Ofwat is working very closely with Thames Water to ensure that the business is viable, that customers are not…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceThe hon. Member is right that Thames Water supplies an enormous part of our population. Ofwat has been working closely with Thames Water, as it does all water companies, and the…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceWhere water companies underperform and do not meet their targets, a process is in place whereby basically they have to credit the money back to their customers. Last year, £143…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceYes.28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceI will highlight the Thames super-sewer—it will be ready to open in the not-too-distant future—which is a tremendous project for the people of London, including many of her…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceI thank my hon. Friend for raising the issue of bathing water quality. Since privatisation we have virtually the best quality water coming out of our taps of almost anywhere in…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceI thank my right hon. Friend for pointing that out; I cannot support more strongly what he said. We have a private system, and Ofwat says that it is financially resilient. We need…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceThat is what we want for all our customers. That is why we have launched our plan for water to pull everything together to ensure that we deal with any pollution incidents, water…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceIn the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, we have our individual portfolios, and I am the water Minister. The Secretary of State has full confidence in her…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceI thank my right hon. Friend for broadening the scope of the debate. We are in discussions with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities—many of these issues…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceI thank my hon. Friend for that. He is right that customers come first, and Thames Water customers will be assured their water supplies and wastewater services. I am happy to meet…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceThere is a structure and a process for working through this matter. It is up to the individual water companies and the regulator working with them to ensure that they are…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceWater is what makes life possible on our planet, and it is essential for our health and wellbeing, as well as for our economy, including the production of food and clean energy.…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceI thank my hon. Friend for pointing that out. He is absolutely right: whatever the Opposition say today, one of the measures they did not vote for in the Environment Act 2021 was…28 Jun 2023 HANSARDWater Industry: Financial ResilienceIt has to be remembered that privatisation occurred in 1989. We have had a succession of different Governments during that time, and it has been this Government who have…28 Jun 2023

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