Water and Sewerage (Scotland)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:07 pm on 17 November 1992.

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Photo of Mr David Steel Mr David Steel , Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale 4:07, 17 November 1992

Does the Secretary of State accept that, in the Borders region, the Tweed basin is a natural water area with one of the cleanest discharges into the North sea in the United Kingdom? Will he also accept that, if anything goes wrong with water or with sewerage, the people have recourse to the officials or councillors who are responsible to them? That would not be the case with the board of directors of a Scottish company, of an English company or, worse still, of a French company, to which my constituents' compatriots south of the Tweed have to go at greater expense. Will the Secretary of State leave well alone?