Mr Toby Perkins

Mr Toby Perkins

Labour — Chesterfield

Speaking in the House of Commons on 23 April 2026

Debate

EnvironmentAL Audit Committee

Contribution

I absolutely believe that the Government need to be ambitious on this issue. We welcome the fact that we now have a PFAS plan, which we did not have previously, and we want to be right behind the Minister in ensuring that DEFRA is as ambitious as it can be. Water companies contributed to our inquiry—they were quite glad to be in the unusual position of not being battered over the head for polluting, since in this case, they are the victims of pollution. The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that the Drinking Water Inspectorate needs to be held to account, although it is important to recognise that among the panoply of water regulators, it is more successful than others. Alongside drinking water, we want to see the same sorts of limits applied to food and our agricultural sector more generally.

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