Water Companies: Incentives
Commons · Question 60235 · Tabled 16 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Manuela Perteghella
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to prevent executives from water companies that have been sanctioned for releasing sewage into waterways from receiving bonuses.
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 23 Jun 2025
The Government is clear that transformative change across the water sector is needed to clean up our rivers, lakes and seas, and modernise the sector for decades to come. Unfair bonuses have been banned under new powers given to Ofwat within the Water (Sp...