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Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 November 2025

Debate

Water and Sewerage Companies: Statutory Consultees

Contribution

My Lords, I am grateful for that Answer. It begs the question how the Government plan to build major housing developments of 300,000 a year, many of them on flood plains with no sustainable drains, with the additional demands of the new data centres and mindful of the Environment Agency’s national framework for water resources, giving the acute warning of a deficit of water of 5 billion litres by 2050. Do the Government agree that we need to end the automatic right to connect, so that where water companies say there is simply no capacity, the development will not go ahead?

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