Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Nov 2013 Water Industry
"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 …..." Gavin Shuker - View Speech
"My hon. Friend is absolutely right. If we look at the price review periods since privatisation, we will see that water bills came down in real terms during only one of them and that was under the previous Labour Government. On the price review process, my hunch is that this …..." Gavin Shuker - View Speech
"Intense flooding has major implications and climate change means that it will happen more regularly, but the hon. Gentleman seems to be saying that the previous Labour Government were in some way wrong to review the situation and flood defences. He was not the MP for his area at the …..." Gavin Shuker - View Speech
"No, that is not the case. The Flood and Water Management Act 2010 created the legislative framework for that measure.
I want to talk about some of the measures that have been trumpeted as the solution to bring about water affordability and to stop the rising tide of householders who …..." Gavin Shuker - View Speech
"I am happy to clarify that. I was saying that the idea of a national water grid is stillborn, purely on the basis that the carbon costs make it too difficult. If we accept the premise for that idea, surely what we need is a similar level of investment in …..." Gavin Shuker - View Speech
"That is incredibly generous of the right hon. Gentleman. I am just checking I am not dead—people rarely speak nicely of each other in the House, so perhaps I am.
I wanted to be helpful, actually. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that neither of those quite good schemes is …..." Gavin Shuker - View Speech
"We have a proposal from this Government, not a deal. The Secretary of State said that
“this announcement means that people no longer need to live in fear of being uninsurable”.
However, all band H properties are excluded, as are so-called “genuinely uninsurable” properties and all properties built after 2009. …..." Gavin Shuker - View Speech
"Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in this important debate. It has been a good debate, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Esher and Walton (Mr Raab) on securing it and the Backbench Business Committee on giving it the importance it deserves.