Richard Burgon

Richard Burgon

Labour — Leeds East

Speaking in the House of Commons on 8 June 2026

Debate

Water Companies

Contribution

Greedy privatised water companies have caused huge harm by treating our rivers and seas like an open sewer. They have been ripping off the public while doing that and, at the same time, they have handed nearly £90 billion over to shareholders since privatisation. Does the Minister agree that, as is being done with the railways, the water companies need to be taken into public ownership so that they can serve the public good and be run for the public good, not for private profit?

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