Lord Wigley: ...Bank will work in England have in fact been devolved to Wales and Scotland, and to Northern Ireland when there is a fully functioning Government there. These include roads, planning, water, sewerage, aspects of rail transport, local government and—of course, of central relevance—environmental matters. Can we be assured that in regard to its activities in Wales, the infrastructure bank...
Cat Smith: ...to her Mexican counterpart on the situation for Protestant Christian families in El Encanto village, Las Margaritas Municipality, Chiapas, who have been denied access to water, electricity and sewerage services for refusing to renounce their religion.
Felicity Buchan: ...about flooded fields in Shropshire or coastal communities in Cornwall and Devon, but the reality is that flooding in London is a huge issue, and there are many reasons for that. We have a Victorian sewerage system that was built for way fewer people. We have clearly seen climate change, with warmer air that can carry more moisture, hence more rainfall. We have also seen densification and...
Tim Farron: ...that they are caused only by exceptional rainfall. As a result of these discharges, only 14% of England’s rivers now meet the criteria to be defined as ecologically good. It is true that our sewerage systems are shamelessly out of date, but the water companies responsible for improving them have little impetus to do so because the Government are barely holding them to account. The...
Alex Rowley: ..., in Fife and, I believe, across Scotland—that are currently stalled because of a lack of front loading for investment in education and health. There are funds for infrastructure including roads, sewerage and so on, but there is no fund to support infrastructure for education or health. If that is not addressed, major developments will be stalled. It is the developers who can come up...
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville: My Lords, in 2021, the leading water and sewerage utility companies had very high revenues, with Thames Water recording £2.1 billion. Over the last 10 years, water companies have paid out £13.4 billion in dividends and directors’ pay. Given the number of illegal sewage discharges into our streams, waterways and seas, is it not time that the Government insisted that water companies clean...
Lucy Frazer: ...forestry and fishing’, ‘Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply’, ‘Mining and quarrying’, ‘Public administration and defence; compulsory social security’, ‘Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities’. These sectors were aggregated due to their small size, to avoid the risk of disclosure.
Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will implement a single social tariff for water and sewerage services.
George Eustice: ...water quality and allow sustainable development to proceed, and so we are going further. The government already has highly ambitious plans to reduce nutrient pollution from both agriculture and sewerage works and has further plans for the future. We have also secured a series of pledges from water companies to provide new funding for nature-based ‘strategic solutions’ to tackle...
Stuart Andrew: .... The Building Regulations also set requirements for the rainwater and surface water drainage of individual buildings under Part H of the Regulations. Ultimately it is the responsibility of the sewerage undertaker for an area, for example Yorkshire Water, to ensure drainage systems for new developments are built to a resilient standard which minimises flooding.
Ruth Edwards: Much of the flooding in villages across Rushcliffe has been linked to new developments built without increasing local sewerage and drainage capacity. How does my right hon. Friend think we can best address that problem through the planning system, to ensure not only that water companies are forced to take new development into account when assessing their infrastructure, but that developers...
Baroness Greengross: ...England, the growth in population is not sustainable and our infrastructure is not keeping up. At current rates of population growth, in 20 years we may struggle to maintain our current water and sewerage infrastructure. To meet the housing demand, we will have to develop areas that are currently used for farming and potentially harm our ecosystems. The ONS projects that the number of...
Rebecca Pow: The Government recognises the importance of having a robust drainage system both now and for future demand. Sewerage companies are responsible for the maintenance and resilience of the drainage and wastewater networks. The first cycle of non-statutory planning, through Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans (DWMPs), is currently ongoing. DWMPs will become statutory through the Environment...
Maggie Chapman: ...that we need for the wellbeing of our citizens. It has been worse in England, where, for example, privatised water companies have paid massive dividends to shareholders while allowing the water and sewerage systems to degrade. We desperately need more money for infrastructure—for investment in our future—including in the telecommunications on which much of our lives will be based...
Nusrat Ghani: ...for Eastbourne has mentioned, there are concerns about healthcare and dental care provision. We have a particular aging population, and because of the area we are in, we also have pressure on sewerage and water. We need greater broadband and of course we always need greater transport investment as well. As I have mentioned to the Minister, after seven long years of meetings, it would be...
Rebecca Pow: ..., planning policy and surface water management. Stakeholders include local planning authorities, water companies, SuDS specialists, developers, manufacturers, regulators, other public bodies, and sewerage undertakers. We will as part of the review be inviting other interested parties to contribute and will make details of how to do this publicly available in due course.
Sadiq Khan: ...breakdown of the support by sector is in the table below: Company Sector No. of businesses agriculture, forestry & fishing 3 mining & quarrying 3 manufacturing 42 electricity, gas, steam 12 water; sewerage, waste & remediation 1 construction 27 wholesale & retail; repair of automotive 156 transportation & storage 10 accommodation & food service 99 information & communication 147 financial...
Emma Hardy: ...Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring infrastructure investment to be secured through Grampian conditions for property development in respect to drainage and sewerage prior to commencement.
Rebecca Pow: ...policy and surface water management including, but not restricted to: local planning authorities, water companies, SuDS specialists, developers, consultants, regulators, other public bodies and sewerage undertakers.
Rebecca Pow: ...Ofwat and the water industry will prioritise appropriate action to enhance water quality and deliver a resilient and sustainable water supply. In particular, the Government wants to see water and sewerage companies making progressive reductions in the adverse impacts of discharges from storm overflows. DWMPs will become statutory through the Environment Act 2021 when the first cycle ends...