Rebecca Pow: ...it is developing an action plan. Actions being considered include improving the transparency and usability of data, which can be done without primary legislation. I turn to amendment 42. I expect sewerage companies to develop statutory drainage and sewerage plans in collaboration with risk management authorities, and I will use the power of direction in the Bill if they do not. I turn to...
Jonathan Buckley: ...my own constituency, and I know of many others across the country. The Minister said in the Chamber that, if the funds were given, she would act on this. We have no completed road services, faulty sewerage systems, no lights and not enough money in bonds to complete developments. This is second-class development and it should not be tolerated. If the Minister for Infrastructure came...
Rebecca Pow: ...quality targets by October 2022: o To reduce the annual average level of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in ambient air o A further target to improve air qualityWater: The Bill makes drainage and sewerage management planning, through which companies develop the capacity of their networks, a statutory duty.Resource Efficiency and Waste Reduction – The Bill will enable Government to make...
Bob Stewart: ...days, weapons systems should be much more broadly defined. They include possible attacks on the way we live. For example, using the internet to turn off water purification and supplies or just sewerage would have a dramatic and immediate impact on British society. I reckon that is a weapons system these days. In future, investors will have no choice but to notify the Government if the...
Conor Murphy: ...have asked for £70 million each — the Department for Communities and the Department for Infrastructure. That will help the Department for Infrastructure to carry out the very necessary water and sewerage work. It will allow for other development, not just public-sector development but private sector as well, and stimulate construction and development. For the Department for Communities,...
Rebecca Pow: ...29 October 2020 to PQ 106951, I have now reviewed the case for implementing section 42 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010. Section 42 implementation would cover the automatic adoption by sewerage companies of new, not existing, sewerage assets, constructed from the date of implementation. This year, my Department will start the work necessary to implement section 42. Part of...
Rebecca Pow: ...water-borne bacteria and viruses—so effective treatment of wastewater at wastewater treatment works is vital. Before wastewater reaches the treatment works, there are storm overflows within the sewerage system, which the hon. Member mentioned. Storm overflows were a design feature of Victorian sewers—they date back a very long way. They are still being used, and they remain an...
Christopher Pincher: ...into account all relevant planning considerations and not just the advice from one consultee. Planning practice guidance encourages early engagement between local planning authorities and water/sewerage companies where water quality is likely to be a significant planning concern. Part 8 of the Development Management Procedure Order 2015 - “Miscellaneous – Local Development Orders”...
Rebecca Pow: ...it. Part of that work will include a consultation on our implementation approach as well as determining the timing for implementation. Section 42 implementation would cover new, not existing, sewerage assets, constructed from the date of implementation. Regarding existing sewerage assets, such as operational private pumping stations, the consultation will seek views on making separate...
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park: The Water Act 2014 placed a new duty on Ofwat to further the resilience objective, which is to secure the long-term resilience of water supply and sewerage systems. It is for Ofwat, as the independent economic regulator, to consider how best to deliver its statutory duties when carrying out all relevant regulatory functions. Ofwat has set out how it has met the resilience duty in its...
Alan Brown: ...Kingdom, including infrastructure connected with any of the other purposes mentioned. That infrastructure includes water, which is still publicly owned in Scotland, electricity, gas, telecoms, sewerage—also publicly owned in Scotland—railway facilities and roads or other transport facilities. As the hon. Member for North East Fife (Wendy Chamberlain) said, that paves the way for the...
Nichola Mallon: ...developments and the difficult situations that some find themselves in. My Department continues to work closely with developers, NI Water, financial institutions and residents to get roads and sewerage infrastructure adopted. I am committed to ensuring that developers provide road and sewerage infrastructure to a standard suitable for adoption in a timely manner and to impressing on...
Sewerage Upgrade: Saintfield
Paul Scully: ... Number of BBLS facilities Volume of Finance under BBLS (£) % of BBLS facilities % of business population Mining and Quarrying; Electricity, Gas and Air Conditioning Supply; Water Supply; Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation Activities 9518 303,000,000 1% 0.6% CBILS by Sector Number of facilities Volume of Finance under CBILS (£) % of CBILS facilities % of business...
Pat Catney: ...in key infrastructure. Congestion and pollution demonstrates the need to reduce our reliance on cars through investment in public transport, along with walking and cycling routes. Water and sewerage infrastructure is near or at capacity in many places, limiting new development and raising environmental risks. While Belfast is now a super-connected city, digital infrastructure outside the...
Ed Miliband: ...development; sports and cultural activities; projects and events infrastructure; education and training infrastructure; and capital investment in water, electricity, gas, telecommunications, sewerage, railways, roads, transport, health, prisons, courts and housing. It gave incredibly wide and overriding powers in devolved areas. Yes, the Government say that this is about the shared...
Nichola Mallon: ...; an easement in respect of a 500 millimetre diameter and 300 millimetre diameter rising main under the Grand canal using an existing 1,500 millimetre culvert as part of the Upper Liffey Valley sewerage scheme; an easement for surface water and foul sewer pipes under the Royal canal at Branniganstown; an easement to facilitate access to their property at Skirteen, County Kildare; a...
Charles Walker: ...the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what financial requirements his Department places on housing developers in relation to meeting the costs of providing water and sewerage resources to new developments; and if he will make a statement.
Paul Scully: ... Number of BBLS facilities Volume of Finance under BBLS (£) % of BBLS facilities % of business population Mining and Quarrying; Electricity, Gas and Air Conditioning Supply; Water Supply; Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation Activities 7,866 251,165,017 1% 0.6% CBILS by Sector Number of CBILS facilities Volume of Finance under CBILS (£) % of CBILS...
Christopher Pincher: ...brought forward as part of the target setting processes set out in DEFRA’s Environment Bill. The Environment Bill will place a statutory requirement on water companies to produce drainage and sewerage management plans, and we will continue to press water companies to protect both people and the environment.