Water and Sewage Regulation (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Agnew, who in the committee gave us man...

My Lords, I had the privilege of being a member of the committee that produced this report under ...

My Lords, I have been on the Industry and Regulators Committee since its inception and I am pleas...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Hollick, and the members of his committee on the mo...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Hollick for his cogent introduction, and thank the committ...

My Lords, I must first declare my interests as a farmer and chair of the UK Centre for Ecology & ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Hollick and the members of the Industry and Regulators Com...

My Lords, I declare my registered interests that are relevant to this debate. I welcome the Indus...

My Lords, as a newly appointed member of the Industry and Regulators Committee, I am privileged t...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Hollick, on his excellent introduction to this bril...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Hollick for his introduction to our debate on this excelle...

My Lords, I refer noble Lords to my entry in the register and start by thanking the noble Lord, L...

I am grateful to the Minister. Since he referred to nationalisation, could he explain why is it a...

I think it has been wonderful to see pension funds invest—perhaps those paying the pensions of th...

Either the Minister is agreeing with me or perhaps I was not clear. My concern is whether the wat...

Multi-million pound infrastructure projects are being done by water companies; I will come on to ...

My Lords—

Perhaps the noble Baroness would allow me to finish. We passed more legislation in the Moses Room...

I thank the Minister for his response. My point was that water companies can pay those fines very...

We make sure that the money comes not from customers but from shareholders so that it is fair.