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Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) The most important issue they have concentrated is water: sewage and the state of our rivers and seas - Speech Link
2: Duke of Wellington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Almost every day we read in the newspapers of yet more revolting discharges of sewage into our rivers - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) sewage that today spills down our rivers and into our lakes and washes up on our beaches. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage - Thu 18 May 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) If run-off gets into waterinto chalk streams—that causes huge problems. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) There have been numerous questions and debates about the effects of foul-smelling sewage discharging - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) There is a duty on water companies to upgrade their sewage disposal works; that is welcome, but some - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) We aim to bring forward regulations to implement a new duty on water companies to report data on sewage - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sewage Discharges - Wed 12 Oct 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None raw sewage into water courses.] - Speech Link
2: Navendu Mishra (LAB - Stockport) Only 14% of English rivers meet good ecological standards, and water companies discharged raw sewage - Speech Link
3: Ruth Cadbury (LAB - Brentford and Isleworth) Thames Water pumps raw sewage into the Thames every time it rains more than a drizzle. - Speech Link
4: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) By 2035, water companies will have to improve all storm overflows discharging into or near every designated - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ofwat: Strategic Priorities - Thu 09 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Daisy Cooper (LDEM - St Albans) In 2020, water companies discharged raw sewage into waterways 400,000 times, which amounts to more than - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) into our water courses, our rivers and our seas. - Speech Link
3: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) While we have been debating, the water companies have been routinely discharging raw sewage, not because - Speech Link
4: Ruth Cadbury (LAB - Brentford and Isleworth) dilute sewage into water courses? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Water Companies: Sewage Discharge - Mon 15 Nov 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) The petition calls for an outright ban on water companies discharging raw sewage into watercourses. - Speech Link
2: Maria Miller (CON - Basingstoke) companies to dump raw sewage in our water courses. - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Long Bailey (LAB - Salford and Eccles) Last year, as we have heard, water companies dumped raw sewage into England’s rivers and seas 400,000 - Speech Link
4: Helen Hayes (LAB - Dulwich and West Norwood) to account for the damage that they cause to health and the environment by discharging raw sewage into - Speech Link
5: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) While we have been debating, the water companies have been routinely discharging raw sewage—not because - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 05 Jul 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) Gone is the obligation on water companies to ensure that untreated sewage is not discharged into inland - Speech Link
2: None companies discharged raw sewage into rivers in England more than 400,000 times in 2020. - Speech Link
3: None The main purpose of a CSO is, as everybody knows, to allow water companies to dump raw sewage into rivers - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
2nd reading - Mon 07 Jun 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Harries of Pentregarth (CB - Life peer) Since 2019, raw sewage has been dumped into our rivers on more than 20,000 occasions, with millions of - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) The noble Earl, Lord Shrewsbury, spoke eloquently about how raw sewage is discharged into rivers, and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) In 2019, water companies poured raw sewage into rivers on more than 20,000 occasions and dumped thousands - Speech Link
4: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) Water companies clearly must do more to prevent raw sewage flowing into our rivers. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Environment Bill
Report stage - Tue 26 Jan 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) risks, including sewage outflows into rivers, must be managed. - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) outlets—so called because it can generally be traced back to a wastewater pipe that is discharging into - Speech Link
3: Charles Walker (CON - Broxbourne) The water companies want to make sure that this is a team effort. - Speech Link
4: Laura Farris (CON - Newbury) companies that are discharging sewage into rivers. - Speech Link
5: Anthony Browne (CON - South Cambridgeshire) Friend the Member for Ludlow (Philip Dunne) to reduce sewage outflows into rivers. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
A Green Industrial Revolution - Wed 15 Jan 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Steve Double (CON - St Austell and Newquay) We still have too many of these sewage systems that combine household foul waste watersewage—with rainwater - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 31 Oct 2018
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Steve Double (CON - St Austell and Newquay) If we are going to be successful, we are going to need the raw materials. - Speech Link
2: David Davis (CON - Haltemprice and Howden) about.The loans system has failed to deliver a market in university education, with the least valuable courses - Speech Link
3: Scott Mann (CON - North Cornwall) We do not want people discharging themselves in the sea; we would much rather they discharged themselves - Speech Link
4: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) That is to say, all these raw materials belong to me... - Speech Link