Results 1–20 of 200 for sewerage speaker:Lord Benyon

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Water: Sewage (20 Dec 2023)

Lord Benyon: ...following Government’s changes to broaden of the scope of the existing civil sanctions regime and remove the previous cap on penalties. The EA has made 59 prosecutions against water and sewerage companies for pollution offences since 2015, securing fines of over £150m. Four prosecutions have been concluded so far in 2023 for pollution offences:Anglian Water fined £510,000 on 12...

Water and Sewage Regulation (Industry and Regulators Committee Report) - Motion to Take Note (16 Oct 2023)

Lord Benyon: ...for early action. This is the largest infrastructure programme in water company history, with £60 billion of capital investment by 2050. We have also requested action plans from water and sewerage companies on how they will improve every storm overflow in England. These will be published shortly. In April 2023, we published the Plan for Water, our comprehensive strategy to transform the...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Water Companies: Standards ( 6 Jul 2023)

Lord Benyon: Water companies have statutory responsibility under the Water Industry Act 1991, and associated water quality regulations, for sourcing, treating, and transporting water to customers. Water and sewerage companies also have responsibility for removing and treating wastewater before discharging to the environment. The Government has set out our growth ambitions for the water sector in our...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sewage: Property Development ( 2 Jun 2023)

Lord Benyon: ...planning authorities to plan for the development and infrastructure required in their area, including infrastructure for wastewater and utilities. They should work with other providers, such as sewerage companies, to assess the quality and capacity of infrastructure and its ability to meet forecast demands. The Government has made a commitment, as part of its reform package under the...

Water Companies: Customer Bills - Question (23 May 2023)

Lord Benyon: ...in this issue. Undoubtedly, we could resolve the situation by spending somewhere between £120 billion and £600 billion separating clean water from dirty water, retrofitting an entirely new sewerage system and creating additional storage equivalent to 40,000 Olympic swimming pools, but that would add between £271 and £817 per annum to bills. It is important that we are honest with...

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (13th Day): Amendment 390 (18 May 2023)

Lord Benyon: ...provisions by making it clear that the Environment Agency needs to treat excess nutrient pollution discharge which results from the failure to deliver upgrades on time as environmental damage. The sewerage undertaker would then be liable to remediate the excess nutrient pollution determined as having been discharged. For the reasons set out, which I hope provide sufficient reassurance, I...

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Committee (13th Day): Amendment 372ZA (18 May 2023)

Lord Benyon: ...Discharge Reduction Plan, with a target of a 75% reduction in harmful sewage spills by 2035. In our Plan for Water, the Government also committed to reviewing the impact on chalk streams of private sewerage systems—my noble friend Lord Caithness made this point well. The pressures on them are from sewage outflows and inadequate sewage-treatment plants, farming and run-off, and serious...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sewage: Waste Disposal (16 Mar 2023)

Lord Benyon: Water and Sewerage Company activities are regulated by the Environment Agency under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016. Pursuant to those Regulations the Agency may bring criminal prosecutions against Water and Sewerage Companies and against Directors or other officers of those companies. The relevant provisions of those regulations can be found here: The...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sewage: Waste Disposal ( 2 Mar 2023)

Lord Benyon: Data is provided by Water and Sewerage Companies to the Environment Agency each year as part of their regulatory Annual Return. As a result of additional duties introduced through the Environment Act, water companies will report in near real time, and where a monitor is offline, water companies are required to bring monitors back into service as soon as reasonably practical. As part of the...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Water Companies: Directors (13 Feb 2023)

Lord Benyon: ...enforcement action where these duties are breached. For instance, in 2019, Ofwat imposed a penalty package on Southern Water of £126 million for spills of wastewater into the environment from its sewerage plants and for deliberately misreporting its performance.

Environmental Improvement Plan 2023 - Statement ( 6 Feb 2023)

Lord Benyon: ...amount of rainfall to cause a problem. That is the low-hanging fruit that we want to see targeted, where we would see the quickest results from the £56 billion investment we will see made in our sewerage network—the largest since privatisation.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sewage: Coastal Areas (26 Jan 2023)

Lord Benyon: It is the responsibility of the water and sewerage companies to ensure they clean up any sewage following pollution incidents, including in coastal areas. This is enforced by the Environmental Agency as part of their standard incident response procedures.

Environmental Targets (Water) (England) Regulations 2022 - Motion to Approve: Amendment to the Motion (23 Jan 2023)

Lord Benyon: ...to see large amounts of private sector money being put into the environment. I will add, on enforcement, that, since 2015, the Environment Agency has concluded 59 prosecutions against water and sewerage companies, securing fines of more than £144 million. I will now address the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitchurch, on our targets and ambitions on water use. We want...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sewage: Pollution Control (18 Nov 2022)

Lord Benyon: Water and Sewerage Companies have a regulatory obligation to monitor how long and how often their storm overflows discharge to the environment. This is called Event Duration Monitoring (EDM). We have increased the number of storm overflows monitored across the network from 5% in 2016 to almost 90% now monitored, and we will reach 100% cover by December 2023. Using powers in the landmark...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Water: Pollution ( 7 Nov 2022)

Lord Benyon: ...effects of their offending, its impact on third parties and to make sure it cannot happen again. From 2017 to 2021 (inclusive), the EA accepted 63 enforcement undertakings from the main water and sewerage companies based in England, averaging a £181,690.21 pay-out for each. The total value of these enforcement undertakings was approximately £11.5 million. Where it is not possible...

Water Companies: Pollution - Question ( 2 Nov 2022)

Lord Benyon: My noble friend is absolutely right to raise this. One of the problems is that water coming off roofs and driveways—absolutely clean water—goes into the same sewerage system. To separate foul water from clean water has been estimated at costing between £350 billion and £600 billion, which would have a dramatic effect on people’s bills. However, there is nothing to stop us trying to do...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Water Companies: Regulation (11 Oct 2022)

Lord Benyon: ...water companies, securing fines of almost £140 million. In June 2019, Ofwat imposed a penalty package on Southern Water of £126 million for spills of wastewater into the environment from its sewerage plants and for deliberately misreporting its performance, which contravened both statutory obligations and licence conditions. £3 million was paid as a fine, while £123 million will be...

Sewage Pollution - Commons Urgent Question ( 7 Sep 2022)

Lord Benyon: ...the noble Lord’s issue. The consenting system must be updated. Frankly, some of the consents have been superseded by the fact that large numbers of new people are living in communities where the sewerage infrastructure is not up to the required standard. That is where we want this huge investment to take place. Any discharges that are consented to must be fit for the times in which we...

Sewage Disposal in Rivers and Coastal Waters - Motion to Take Note ( 7 Jul 2022)

Lord Benyon: ...We will be very clear about the costs that this would place on consumers and their bills. Under the Environment Act, water companies are now required to produce comprehensive statutory drainage and sewerage management plans, which will set out how they will manage and develop their drainage and sewerage systems over a minimum 25-year planning horizon. They must include how storm overflows...

Water Companies: Pollution - Question (19 Jan 2022)

Lord Benyon: ...water at certain times. The Government, working with the regulators, with the extra powers that we now have through the Environment Act, are driving water companies, both suppliers and providers of sewerage and wastewater services, with the means they need to address those challenges.


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