HC Deb 13 December 1995 vol 268 c1023

Mr. Richard Burden, supported by Mrs. Helen Jackson, Mrs. Elizabeth Peacock, Mr. Paul Tyler, Mr. Cynog Dafis, Mr. David Nicholson, Ms Joan Ruddock, Mr. David Jamieson, Mrs. Anne Campbell, Mr. Peter L. Pike, Ms Jean Corston and Mr. Nick Ainger, presented a Bill to provide for the conservation of water resources by the establishment of mandatory water leakage targets for water undertakers; by requiring water undertakers to encourage the installation of water efficient fittings in homes; and by providing for the review of abstraction licences which affect sites of nature conservation value; and to give domestic consumers greater choice as to methods of charging for the supply of water: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 19 January and to be printed. [Bill 33.]