Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill

Part of Financial Institutions (Reform) – in the House of Commons at 4:15 pm on 29 February 2012.

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Photo of Alison Seabeck Alison Seabeck Shadow Minister (Defence) 4:15, 29 February 2012

Perhaps I can shed some light on what was going on under the previous Government. In the Plymouth south-west area, a detailed pilot was undertaken to identify people for whom water was unaffordable. That was to feed through into forward policy development. Anna Walker used that as part of the basis for some of the work that she did, so it is not true that we were not considering how to reach the people who needed help.