Water Companies: Pollution Penalties
Debate between Baroness Altmann and Duke of Wellington
Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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The Duke of Wellington
To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to reconsider their proposal to increase to £250 million the maximum penalty for serious pollution incidents by water companies; and what assessment they have made of the reported remarks by the chair of the Environment Agency describing the proposal as “crazy”.
Baroness Altmann (Con)
My Lords, the noble Duke, the Duke of Wellington, apologises for being absent today as he is on a parliamentary delegation to Madrid. On his behalf, and at his request, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in his name on the Order Paper.