Member

At this time, with cost of living challenges—still the number one issue in this country—when we have already seen water bills go up to pay for infrastructure improvements and the like, here is an opportunity for the Government to do the right thing and get on with this. Yet again, I am afraid it will be the Minister’s department that is trying to block this. Indeed, when I asked a Question of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ullock, earlier this year, she suggested that the Government were committed to SUDS—improving it in the NPPF and the like—and that it was something they were planning to do. The Answer came back: