To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the level of customer engagement undertaken by Southern Water and Portsmouth Water on the acceptability of effluent recycling, and whether she plans to require earlier and more robust consultation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the level of customer engagement undertaken by Southern Water and Portsmouth Water on the acceptability of effluent recycling, and whether she plans to require earlier and more robust consultation.

Like the hon. Member, I am appalled by this plastic pollution incident, which affects his constituency, nearby constituencies and Camber Sands. We are holding Southern Water to account. There needs to be a thorough investigation of what happened, and as has been said by the Minister with responsibility for water and flooding, my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice (Emma Hardy) —she has been in touch with both the water company and the Environment Agency—the immediate priority is to address the damage caused, but we need to ask questions about why this was not uncovered earlier. The water Minister or I would be happy to meet him.

Like the hon. Member, I am appalled by this plastic pollution incident, which affects his constituency, nearby constituencies and Camber Sands. We are holding Southern Water to account. There needs to be a thorough investigation of what happened, and as has been said by the Minister with responsibility for water and flooding, my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice (Emma Hardy) —she has been in touch with both the water company and the Environment Agency—the immediate priority is to address the damage caused, but we need to ask questions about why this was not uncovered earlier. The water Minister or I would be happy to meet him.

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Josh Babarinde (Eastbourne) (LD):

Catastrophic failures at Southern Water’s water treatment works in Eastbourne have led to extensive sewage discharges, a stench stinking out our town, and, a matter of days ago, the accidental discharge of millions of plastic bio-beads into our sea. Will the Minister urgently meet me to discuss how we can force Southern Water to finally get a grip of its appalling failures at our water treatment works?

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Josh Babarinde (Eastbourne) (LD):

Catastrophic failures at Southern Water’s water treatment works in Eastbourne have led to extensive sewage discharges, a stench stinking out our town, and, a matter of days ago, the accidental discharge of millions of plastic bio-beads into our sea. Will the Minister urgently meet me to discuss how we can force Southern Water to finally get a grip of its appalling failures at our water treatment works?

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many tonnes of sewage were discharged into the River Thames in the last five years, broken down by water utility; and if she will make a statement. - Inc figures and ref to 15 December 2004, 428...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many tonnes of sewage were discharged into the River Thames in the last five years, broken down by water utility; and if she will make a statement. - Inc figures and ref to 15 December 2004, 428...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the timing of the introduction of secondary sewage treatment at the sewage works under construction at Yaverland, Sandown, Isle of Wight. - (Holding answer 26 March 1999).

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the timing of the introduction of secondary sewage treatment at the sewage works under construction at Yaverland, Sandown, Isle of Wight. - (Holding answer 26 March 1999).

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what timetable his Department plans to set for the installation of secondary treatment works at the Southern Water sewage treatment plant at Yaverland on the Isle of Wight.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what timetable his Department plans to set for the installation of secondary treatment works at the Southern Water sewage treatment plant at Yaverland on the Isle of Wight.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will instruct OFWAT to review Southern Water's site selection procedures for sewage-treatment plants.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will instruct OFWAT to review Southern Water's site selection procedures for sewage-treatment plants.

Adjournment debate on sewage treatment and disposal on the south coast.

Adjournment debate on sewage treatment and disposal on the south coast.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what preliminary research his Department undertook prior to the determination of the standards required in the discharge consents granted to Southern Water's waste water treatment plants in the Solent; and by what means his Department evaluates the...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what preliminary research his Department undertook prior to the determination of the standards required in the discharge consents granted to Southern Water's waste water treatment plants in the Solent; and by what means his Department evaluates the...

Southern Water Services Limited (Dover and Folkestone Waste Water Treatment Scheme - Land at East Cliff and Adjoining Coronation Parade and Wear Bay Road Folkestone) Compulsory Purchase Order 1995. Laid before Parliament with a certificate.

Southern Water Services Limited (Dover and Folkestone Waste Water Treatment Scheme - Land at East Cliff and Adjoining Coronation Parade and Wear Bay Road Folkestone) Compulsory Purchase Order 1995. Laid before Parliament with a certificate.