I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way; he is being extremely generous with his time. Does not Ofwat potentially suffer from perverse incentives? We know that it does not matter how cheap water is; if there is none, we need infrastructure to be built. If Ofwat has a primary duty to ensure best value for customers—which, of course, it must—it is almost certain to find it very difficult over time to allow infrastructure development that will help our resilience. Is not that a problem we need to address?
Water Industry
Proceeding contribution from
George Hollingbery
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 5 November 2013.
It occurred during Backbench debate on Water Industry.
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