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Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 6 March 2012, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Benyon. The answering member was Gavin Shuker.

Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill. Second Reading debate. Agreed to on question. Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, on Report, Third Reading and any other proceedings agreed to on question. Queen's recommendation signified. Money resolution agreed to on question.

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

541 c719-48

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Programme motions
Money resolutions
Queen's recommendation

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill. Explanatory notes Bill 299-EN also published.
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Benyon | 541 c747-8 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I cannot. My hon. Friend the Member for Newton Abbot expressed the fear that not al...

Simon Hughes | 541 c746 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister allow me?

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Lord Benyon | 541 c746-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I am a bit short of time, and I may be about to answer the point. Despite the concer...

Andy Slaughter | 541 c745 (Link to this contribution) I compliment the Minister on his clarity and consistency on this issue. Does he share my frustration...

Lord Benyon | 541 c745 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way just once to the hon. Gentleman.

Lord Benyon | 541 c744-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank hon. Members on both sides of the House for their participation in this debate. It is good t...

Dan Rogerson | 541 c732-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and we might be talking about some of the people who are wor...

Kate Green | 541 c733-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak in the debate. Many hon. Members have noted that the Bill seeks to deal wi...

Dan Rogerson | 541 c730-2 (Link to this contribution) I think we can point to the time before the Labour Government, during the early days of the privatis...

Alison Seabeck | 541 c734 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend talks with a great deal of experience in this field. Could she offer a view on whethe...

Dan Rogerson | 541 c730 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an excellent point, and we can set that against the background of what others ha...

Alison Seabeck | 541 c730 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Member for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport (Oliver Colvile) leaves the Chamber—oh no,...

Dan Rogerson | 541 c730 (Link to this contribution) I suspect we will hear more about people in Plymouth who are in that situation.

Alison Seabeck | 541 c730 (Link to this contribution) Actually, I rose to talk not about people in Plymouth but about the additional costs that the water ...

Andy Slaughter | 541 c742 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend has any lingering doubts about the need to alleviate the sewage going into the Tha...

Gavin Shuker | 541 c742-3 (Link to this contribution) I believe that is what is known as a helpful intervention from my hon. Friend. The hon. Member for ...

Andrew George | 541 c744 (Link to this contribution) How would the hon. Gentleman answer the questions that he has just put to the Government?

Gavin Shuker | 541 c744 (Link to this contribution) We have been very clear about the measures that we believe the Government could take right now to ma...

Kate Green | 541 c734-6 (Link to this contribution) I will not venture to speculate on that—it is disappointing that I, a universal credit junkie, do no...

Neil Parish | 541 c736 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for all his work in getting this Bill into Parliament so that we can deliver th...

Sheryll Murray | 541 c736 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the average income per household in my constituency and the wider sou...

Neil Parish | 541 c736-7 (Link to this contribution) I do indeed. We have to look at the income profile of people's salaries and wages. We rely a great d...

Andrew Love | 541 c737-40 (Link to this contribution) Rather unusually, I will start my contribution by seeking to resolve a confusion that has been in my...

Gavin Shuker | 541 c740-2 (Link to this contribution) Allow me, Madam Deputy Speaker, to convey the apologies of the shadow Secretary of State, who has be...

Matthew Offord | 541 c725 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an eloquent speech. Does he agree that the Bubbler and the sustainable ...

Andy Slaughter | 541 c723-5 (Link to this contribution) In London, there is a real need for improvement to the sewerage system. The present network of major...

George Eustice | 541 c722-3 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by welcoming this Bill. We all know the historical causes of high water bills in the so...

Andy Slaughter | 541 c726-8 (Link to this contribution) The whole exercise has been a PR exercise, a sham and a spoiler. Those who have supported, or are su...

Matthew Offord | 541 c726 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that our aim is to address some of the environmental problems of the r...

Andy Slaughter | 541 c725-6 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right; it is a sticking plaster approach. I have reservations about the tunnel, w...

Dan Rogerson | 541 c729 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Bill offers opportunities for other parts of the count...

Simon Hughes | 541 c729 (Link to this contribution) On the broader, rather than the narrow, point, may I say that those of us with London seats do not t...

Ian Jnr Paisley | 541 c720 (Link to this contribution) I wholeheartedly agree with the hon. Gentleman on the use of the network of canals. This is niche le...

Oliver Colvile | 541 c719-20 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker, for calling me back to the crease to continue my batting, in the same way tha...

Oliver Colvile | 541 c720 (Link to this contribution) It is fair to say that the Bill affects a specific part of England, and it would not be appropriate ...

Lord Benyon | 541 c745-6 (Link to this contribution) I thought that the hon. Gentleman was going to make a helpful intervention, but he made his point el...

George Eustice | 541 c732 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that another shortcoming of the WaterSure tariff is the fact that it i...

Julie Hilling | 541 c720-2 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be able to speak in this debate. I am not against support for water customers in the...

Dan Rogerson | 541 c728-9 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, I am delighted that the Bill has been introduced. I would have liked to have seen it some t...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 541 c747 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

Subjects

Greater London

Infrastructure

Government assistance

Pollution

Water

Water charges

Water supply

Water companies

Sewers

South West Water