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Thames Water: Contingency Plans (15 Mar 2024)

Sarah Olney: Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker, for granting me the opportunity to have a debate on this important issue. Since 2020, Thames Water has dumped over 72 billion litres of raw sewage into rivers in London, polluting our waterways and damaging our natural environments. It has done so while accruing billions of pounds of debt and increasingly failing to provide basic services to the nearly...

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Waterway Cleanliness (14 Mar 2024)

Mick Whitley: ...water bills rise by nearly 40% by 2030 as water companies look to consumers to meet the costs of much-need infrastructure upgrades. Do the Government agree that the cost of stemming the flow of sewage into our waterways should be met by the water companies and the shareholders who were received hundreds of millions of pounds in payouts last year, not by the hard- working British public?

Planning Reform — [Mr Clive Betts in the Chair] (13 Mar 2024)

Tim Farron: ...in the coming months and years. When we do see development, let us also ensure that we build infrastructure. Often we will see the water company saying that it does not need to invest in any more sewage infrastructure or additional capacity, and to just go ahead and build. Because water companies are a statutory consultee, the planners have to nod that through. We should hold the water...

Prime Minister: Engagements (13 Mar 2024)

Sarah Olney: On this Conservative Government’s watch, Thames Water has dumped over 72 billion litres of sewage into London’s rivers, all while racking up multi-billion-pound debts, and it is now reported that Thames Water could go bust any day. Despite this, the Government are still refusing to publish their contingency plans for the collapse of our country’s biggest water firm. Does the Prime...

Income Tax (Charge) (12 Mar 2024)

Valerie Vaz: ...they want to charge us £156 extra to plug a financial gap. What would we do? We would end self-monitoring and force companies to monitor every single outlet, so that they cannot cover up illegal sewage dumping. The Chancellor mentioned a new tax on vaping—we have seen vape shops proliferate on the high street—and the freezing of alcohol duty, which helps pubs, but he said nothing...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Water: Contamination (12 Mar 2024)

Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he is providing public health warnings about the importance of avoiding water contaminated with sewage.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Water: Contamination (12 Mar 2024)

Rachael Maskell: ...ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on levels of ill health caused by contact with sewage contaminated water.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sewers (12 Mar 2024)

Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the sewage drainage systems in (a) the UK and (b) York to address (i) demand and (ii) demand when it rains.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sewage: Waste Disposal (12 Mar 2024)

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to revoke the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989 that regulate sewage sludge and bring sewage sludge regulation within the Environmental Permitting Regime; and if so, when.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sewage: Waste Disposal (11 Mar 2024)

Anna Firth: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects the storm overflow action plans produced by water companies to be published.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sewage: Waste Disposal (11 Mar 2024)

Baroness Boycott: To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to direct the Environment Agency to revise all permits issued in respect of water company sewage discharges under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016, so that those permits fully reflect the combined obligations of the Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994 and the judgment in the case...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Rivers: Sewage (11 Mar 2024)

Baroness Boycott: To ask His Majesty's Government when the results of the Storm Overflow Assessment Framework will be published for storm overflows potentially discharging untreated sewage into English rivers; and on what occasions there have been (1) overflows where untreated sewage can be lawfully discharged other than as a result of exceptional rainfall, and (2) overflows where untreated sewage cannot be...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sewage: South Holland and the Deepings ( 8 Mar 2024)

John Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many storm overflow discharges there have been in South Holland and The Deepings constituency in the last five years.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Water: Sewage ( 8 Mar 2024)

Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that the polluter pays principle is upheld on sewage releases.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Rivers: Sewage ( 8 Mar 2024)

Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how river water quality is tested for sewage releases.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Water: Sewage ( 8 Mar 2024)

Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will (a) take steps to set targets for water companies to end sewage releases and (b) ensure that water companies invest in infrastructure.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sewage: Rivers ( 8 Mar 2024)

Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps is he taking to neutralise sewage in rivers.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sewers ( 8 Mar 2024)

Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects sewage release levels to be reduced.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sewage: Pollution ( 8 Mar 2024)

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an estimate of the number of homes affected by sewage rising into (a) gardens, (b) toilets and (c) sinks after heavy rains.

Income Tax (Charge) ( 7 Mar 2024)

Stephen Kinnock: ...the roof, house building fallen off a cliff, worklessness rising, homelessness never higher, crimes going unsolved and rape victims waiting years for their day in court. We have rivers full of sewage, which is the perfect metaphor for the stench of decay that is emanating from this clapped-out Government. Households are £870 worse off on average under Sunak’s —the Prime...


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