Speeches by Maynard.

“Effectively, it is just not working. That is why we have 2034 dates and all this kind of craziness.”

“Mike, do you have anything to add?”

“Does the hon. Gentleman agree that adopting a policy of managed decline, as the Conservatives did in Oxfordshire in 2014, is a disaster, and is really not the appropriate way to fix the problems we have in front of us?”

“I want to play back what the Minster just said. It is up to either Ofwat or the Secretary of State to apply to the court to put the company into special administration. As the Minister wrote to me last July or September, one of those conditions is whether the company is unable, or likely to be unable, to pay its debts.…”

“I said that she is the chair of Water UK, which is the trade body for water companies, so I think that follows.”

“To be clear, I said that Ruth Kelly is the chair of Water UK—I said exactly that.”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“Could the hon. Member elaborate a little bit on that £250 billion number and where it comes from?”

“Many apologies to you, Ms Lewell, and to the Minister. The signal that the Minister and the Government are sending to this and other regulated sectors is simply terrible. All that customers in my Witney constituency and across the whole catchment really want at this point is reliable, affordable, clean water to our hom…”

“None of the 60 amendments in the Commons, or however many there were, was accepted. The rejected proposals included putting flow meters on the outflows of sewage treatment works, which is sort of logical; establishing targets to reduce pollution over time, using existing benchmarks of hours of spilled sewage; making se…”

“Yes, it does. I think Ofwat is doing exactly what the company’s creditors want it to do, and I wonder why that is happening, because it should not be. Finally, there is a failure to innovate. There are a host of technologies out there, and far too often we hear the same old lines about Victorian sewers, cameras and how…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Sutton and Cheam (Luke Taylor) for securing this debate on Government support for Thames Water. What does Government support for Thames Water look like? Our current Government support Thames Water by letting it breach th…”

“As the Secretary of State will know, in 2018, this House allocated £40 million of funding in memory of Dame Tessa Jowell, who was killed by a brain tumour. Seven years on, less than half of that money has been spent. The money is doing no good sitting in a bank, so will the Secretary of State please commit to spending …”

“Who do you need to challenge back, and how quickly is that happening? We have criminal acts going on in front of our eyes. Nobody wants that to happen. So who decides?”

“Let’s run with that. So they can say that there is nobody officially there, but they are still making the decisions and running that company just fine. What happens then?”

“Okay. If you see that, what would be the timeline between actions? If by the end of that period, these people do not have their IDs, what kind of strike-off period would there be?”

“Does the hon. Member agree that if we were to rejoin a single market in electricity, we would lower our electricity bills by joining the single day-ahead coupling system with Europe?”

“Such as? What were those key learnings or key steps that made a difference?”

“Yes, and how do we make that happen?”

“Martin, I am sorry to interrupt, but I am not actually asking you to advocate these things. I am just asking, if the Government were to act, what the key steps would be that would make a difference. I am not saying that you support those steps or not, but what are they?”