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Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 29 October 2025

Debate

Water Companies: Private Ownership

Contribution

My Lords, the Cunliffe review does indeed refer to the need for a single regulator. It concludes in recommendation 16 that this regulator “should combine the functions of Ofwat, DWI, and water functions from the EA and NE”. Natural England is being given a very big role in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and I just wonder how this fits with what the Government are proposing if they fulfil the recommendations of the Cunliffe review. Will we have to rewrite the planning Bill when the next water Bill comes along?

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