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Commons Chamber
Protecting and Restoring Wetlands - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) coastal habitats such as saltmarshes, seagrass and estuaries, to inland features such as ponds, lakes, rivers - Speech Link
2: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) I know that in her previous brief the Minister worked extraordinarily hard on the problem of sewage and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sustainable Farming Incentive: Species Management and ELMS - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Lordships’ House—and the entire country—is acutely aware of the issues around the state of many of our rivers - Speech Link
2: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) example, we have added five new actions and amended four existing ones to support the management of rivers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Extreme Weather Events: Resilience - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Kit Malthouse (Con - North West Hampshire) He will understand the ecological importance of those rivers, and the risk of the sewage system being - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) Will the Minister join me in congratulating Liberal Democrat councillors and Somerset Rivers Authority - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) During the recent flooding in Oxfordshire, it dumped sewage from 270 sites along the Thames in one week - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) We have been clear that the volume of sewage discharge by water companies is unacceptable, and that is - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Children Not in School: National Register and Support - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) face of voters waiting year after year for NHS treatment, as the Prime Minister did last week, the sewage - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environmental Policies: Timeliness and Effectiveness - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) My Lords, does my noble friend agree that part of the reason for sewage spilling into people’s homes - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) When we came into government, we knew about 10% of the sewage outflows from water companies into rivers - Speech Link
3: Baroness Altmann (Con - Life peer) It is apparently not attending all the sewage outflows, so it could well be that significant numbers - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) companies but farmers, home owners and others who are responsible for the quality of the water in our rivers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee of the whole House day 2 - Wed 17 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None spiralling and mortgages are going through the roof; 7.8 million people are on NHS waiting lists; raw sewage - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Water Pollution - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) Environment Agency to regulate and police water companies, and what steps they plan to take to stop sewage - Speech Link
2: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) The Government are clear that the current volume of sewage being discharged into our waters is unacceptable - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) requests or environmental information requests to water companies, to explore and expose the illegal sewage - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) Will they commit to putting robust independent regulation in place to ensure sewage works’ compliance - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Storm Henk - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) Farmers are concerned that rivers and drainage channels are clogged up. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) ground becoming completely waterlogged, with new rain having nowhere to go but into the already overfull rivers - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) A lot of the floodwater will contain sewage: it is sewage on farmland and in people’s houses. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) plan to let the regulator block any bonuses for water bosses who are responsible for the tidal wave of sewage - Speech Link
2: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) executive bonuses, while failing to regulate the industry’s rampant pollution and the dumping of raw sewage - Speech Link
3: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) meet me to discuss how we can hold Thames Water to account for its continual failure over dumping raw sewage - Speech Link