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Lords Chamber
Impact of Environmental Regulations on Development (Built Environment Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) It is almost better described as “water sufficiency”. - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) , because there is a water shortage in Cornwall. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) abstraction by a privatised utility under the noses of the Government’s Environment Agency and nature - Speech Link
4: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) In the meantime, in areas of serious water stress where water scarcity is inhibiting the adoption of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
English Horticultural Sector (Horticultural Sector Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Redesdale (LD - Life peer) There are also water supply concerns and certainty that water shortages will increase in future as a - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Flood Recovery Framework - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) available for abstraction by as soon as 2050. - Speech Link
2: Duncan Baker (Con - North Norfolk) I have the broads in my constituency, great swathes of which are still under water, and the water table - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Do we shut water out and have the continual battle of keeping it away, as the hon. - Speech Link
4: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) which boundary; water will go its own way. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions) (Amendment) Order 2024 - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) Ofwat has struggled to ensure that the water companies fulfil their duties to provide clean water and - Speech Link
2: None Is the DBT a shareholder of the most polluting water companies? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) This is not an abstraction. - Speech Link
2: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) There’s no water. There’s no gas or heating. There is starvation.” - Speech Link
3: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) I started by knocking a glass of water over when I came into the Chamber, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Thames Water: Contingency Plans - Fri 15 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) The controversial Teddington direct river abstraction project will allow Thames Water to take water from - Speech Link
2: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) Our plan for water will transform our management of the water system, delivering cleaner water for nature - Speech Link
3: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) The Government’s priority is the ongoing provision of water and waste water services. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mick Whitley (Lab - Birkenhead) Households across the north-west could see their water bills rise by nearly 40% by 2030 as water companies - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) Water that goes through water treatment works is treated but not necessarily disinfected by the use of - Speech Link
3: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) abstraction project. - Speech Link
4: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) direct river abstraction proposal opposed by tens of thousands of local residents and river users across - Speech Link
5: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) Ministers are already aware of the success of my quarterly water summits, which have caused Anglian Water - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Agency - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) The noble Baroness makes an insightful point about these precious and irreplaceable water bodies—chalk - Speech Link
2: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) we manage our water. - Speech Link
3: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) Just last week, we consulted on creating 27 new water designation bathing sites. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
South West Water - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Simon Jupp (Con - East Devon) to clean up its act and our water. - Speech Link
2: Anne Marie Morris (Con - Newton Abbot) have increased by 350,000 by 2050, with many working from home, increasing demand, and we know that abstraction - Speech Link
3: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) in which all water companies work. - Speech Link
4: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) improvements in water quality? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) food security by supporting and investing in the essential foundations, from healthy soils to clean water - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) Belgian farmers blockaded the EU building in Brussels in February, and water cannon were used. - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) drought and restrictions on abstraction. - Speech Link
4: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) Large parts of Mid Norfolk are currently under water. - Speech Link