Member

I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Scott, for her contribution. She discussed how these projects can now be delivered. Only projects delivered by third-party providers appointed by a statutory water undertaker will be eligible to qualify as NSIPs under our Amendment 4. Those providers will have been successful in a competitive tender process run by a water undertaker. To address her question, the projects must also still meet the existing thresholds for classification as a NSIP, including criteria on size and capacity. That ensures that only genuinely large-scale, strategic water infrastructure qualifies, and that delivery remains under the oversight of regulated water companies or the water regulator.