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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...