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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 November 2024

Debate

Water (Special Measures) Bill [HL]

Contribution

37: Clause 2, page 6, line 6, at end insert— “(4) Where, in deciding how to exercise its functions in relation to a relevant undertaker, the appropriate agency has regard to the record of the undertaker in complying with its legal obligations concerning pollution, it must also have regard to the record of the undertaker in implementing measures set out in its pollution incident reduction plans.”Member’s explanatory statement This amendment requires the Environment Agency and the Natural Resources Body for Wales to have regard to the record of undertakers in implementing their pollution incident reduction plans when deciding how to exercise regulatory functions.

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