Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department are taking to ensure the effective implementation of (a) fines, (b) a moratorium on performance-related remuneration to senior executives and (c) other consequences for Wessex Water for increases in sewage overflows in the last 12 months.

In December 2025, Ofwat concluded an investigation into Wessex Water, confirming that the company will fund an £11m enforcement package after the company failed to operate, maintain and upgrade its wastewater network adequately to ensure that they could cope with the flows of sewage and wastewater.