To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.


View sample alert

Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

Commons Chamber
Funding for Canals - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: David Morris (Con - Morecambe and Lunesdale) A rigorous evaluation, summarised in the recently released “Valuing our Waterways” report, evidenced - Speech Link
2: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading East) Residents appreciate the ability to access waterways. - Speech Link
3: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) Canals and waterways, rivers, lakes, coastal areas and streams are fundamental to that. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Capital Projects: Spending - Thu 26 Oct 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) Nutrient neutrality, and the delays it is causing to housing delivery and the wider need to restore our waterways - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 19 Oct 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Michael Fabricant (Con - Lichfield) As chairman of the all-party parliamentary group for the waterways, I share concerns about the future - Speech Link
2: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) Last year, this Government oversaw record levels of illegal sewage discharges into our rivers and waterways - Speech Link


Written Statements
Water Companies - Mon 16 Oct 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) impacting consumer bills.Furthermore, recognising public calls for action to tackle plastic pollution in waterways - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Water and Sewage Regulation (Industry and Regulators Committee Report) - Mon 16 Oct 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LDEM - Life peer) I am just as worried about a pathogen in waterways as I am about a dodgy financial product. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) part to play in ensuring that our water supply is plentiful and fit for purpose and that our streams, waterways - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Environmental Civil Sanctions (England) (Amendment) Order 2023 - Wed 13 Sep 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) There have been numerous debates in the House on storm overflows and the resultant sewage spills into waterways - Speech Link
2: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (LAB - Life peer) come together again after a summer of yet more horrendous headlines about illegal discharges into our waterways - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Wed 13 Sep 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) phosphate which remains in the water after domestic sewage is treated—will not get anywhere near the waterways - Speech Link
2: None How are they going to explain that when they pump it into the waterways of the Norfolk Broads or the - Speech Link
3: Earl Cathcart (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Our waterways and coastline are undeniably in a terrible condition, and the situation is not improving - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Combined Sewer Overflows - Wed 13 Sep 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) take to put an end to this appalling situation, bring the water companies to heel and clean up our waterways - Speech Link
2: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) that investment goes where it will have the most effect: where the most concentrated sewage goes into waterways - Speech Link
3: Ben Bradshaw (LAB - Exeter) south-west is the minority of livestock farmers who put silage, run-off from silage and slurry into local waterways - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Water Resources Management Plan: Teddington - Wed 06 Sep 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) pumping treated effluent into the river is viable, given the current levels of sewage pollution in our waterways - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nutrient Neutrality: Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - Tue 05 Sep 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) was not to scrap it but to change the guidance to make it more intelligent, so that we protect our waterways - Speech Link
2: Ben Bradshaw (LAB - Exeter) Instead of letting developers and water companies off the hook and pouring even more sewage into our waterways - Speech Link
3: Mohammad Yasin (LAB - Bedford) decreasing protections for our beautiful river when what is needed is an urgent plan to clean up our dirty waterways - Speech Link