Speeches by Kirkham.

“Get them back online more quickly. It took a while to do that.”

“But you can see my point: it is beaches all across Cornwall, and it is getting worse not better. It is really impacting on our economy as well as the health of the people who live in Cornwall. I had to pass that on today. It is very important that you understand from the people of Cornwall how much it is impacting.”

“It may have been; it may not have been. We do not know.”

“The answer is that nobody really knows whether TODCOF is being used.”

“Is there a rough timeline for that group to come back with a report?”

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“Does the hon. Member agree that some pet owners may not be aware of how bad this issue is, and so packaging, usage guidance and point-of-sale advice for pet treatments should give some warning of the danger that the product could affect aquatic life if it ever entered watercourses?”

“On that point, will the hon. Member give way?”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that these uplifts are a huge boost for equality, because they benefit women, younger and older workers, workers with disabilities and those from minority ethnic backgrounds more than others?”

“I want to carry on with that a little. I am from Cornwall, which relies really heavily on our beaches particularly, for tourism, for our economy, for health, and yet South West Water has the worst performance among sewage companies for pollution incidents last year—hugely worse than other ones. We have surfers getting …”

“What will the impacts be on places like St Agnes and Porthluney that are not part of the initial programme to look at those storm overflows? How long will it take for those places?”

“I can hear the whole of Cornwall almost screaming at me that it is getting worse. Last year, it got a lot worse than it had been previously. How come it is getting worse? How come there are these CSOs disposing on to beaches when it has not even been raining? What can we do about that quickly?”

“Could you give us a timeframe? In terms of somewhere like St Agnes, which is not on the initial programme, how long do you think it will be until they are not having sewage disposed of on their beach?”

“There will always be problems with agriculture and other things; that is true.”

“But you need to focus on what you can do about that.”

“From your point of view, in terms of St Agnes, when will you be looking at the CSOs there?”

“Are you happy to help residents sample? At Mylor Creek, for example, which is having sewage spills at the moment, a lot of the residents want help to go down and take samples themselves. Is that something that you would be prepared to do?”

“You are offering that support. I want to move very quickly on to supply before I run out of time. In July, there were residents in St Eval without supply for two weeks. I had the same in my constituency in the Roseland as well. I think the hospital was even impacted by that. Over previous years, we have had problems wi…”

“Get them back online more quickly. It took a while to do that.”

“I have one more question about customer satisfaction. South West Water is very low on customer satisfaction levels, having been 12th out of 13 for the last three years, and Bristol is better. What are you doing about those low rates? How do you intend to improve them? Will you be learning from Bristol and improving, or…”