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Water Industry

Debate between Gavin Shuker and Thomas Docherty
Tuesday 5th November 2013

(11 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Gavin Shuker Portrait Gavin Shuker
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Why not start with the three reviews that led to the water White Paper? The Pitt, Walker and Cave reviews looked directly at competition and were conducted in the five years before we exited government and this Administration came in. They laid the groundwork and contained radical ideas that would have resulted in better provisions for water affordability. They would have put in place a framework to deal with the issue in its entirety. The water White Paper, which resulted from those reviews, was quite good, but that has left many of us asking: why is the Water Bill so washed out?

Thomas Docherty Portrait Thomas Docherty
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My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. I think I am right in saying that it was only under the Labour Government that water bills actually fell. Is that correct?