HC Deb 16 December 1993 vol 234 c1299

Mr. Stanley Orme, supported by Mr. Richard Burden., Mrs. Anne Campbell, Mr. John Denham, Mr. Bill Etherington, Mr. Frank Field, Mr. Simon Hughes, Helen Jackson, Mr. Rhodri Morgan, Mr. Edward O'Hara, Mrs. Elizabeth Peacock and Mr. Paul Tyler, presented a Bill to amend the Water Industry Act 1991 so as to remove the powers of water undertakers to disconnect residential premises in cases of non-payment of charges; to constrain the installation of pre-payment devices for the supply of water; and for connected purposes: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 25 February, and to be printed. [Bill 17.]