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Lord Sikka (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 June 2026

Debate

Water Companies

Contribution

My Lords, water companies have knowingly violated their licence conditions and have more convictions than hardened criminal gangs, yet no executive has been fined and no company forced to relinquish its licence. What will it take for the Government to recognise that privatisation has failed and that water companies ought to be returned to public ownership?

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