| Heading: |
Thames Water: Nationalisation |
| Question ID: |
1814615 |
| UIN: |
61413 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5336 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Helen Maguire
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| Asking Member handle: |
helenemaguire
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@helenemaguire
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of nationalising Thames Water. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-24 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4645 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Emma Hardy
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Emma Hardy
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| Answer text: |
The Government has no plans to nationalise Thames Water or any other water company. It would cost billions of pounds and take years to unpick the current ownership model, slowing down our reforms and only worsening sewage pollution. However, this Governme... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |