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PMQs: Sunak refuses to ban water company bonuses amid sewage dumping scandal
During Prime Minister’s Questions today, Rishi Sunak refused to back the Liberal Democrat demand to ban water company executive bonuses.
The Leader of the Liberal Democrats raised the multi-million pound bonuses paid to water company executives, despite their firms destroying rivers and coatlines with sewage discharges.
Conservative MPs were heard to be laughing at the issue of sewage discharges.
In the House of Commons, Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey asked:
Mr Speaker,
Last week, many lifelong Conservative voters turned to the Liberal Democrats to be their strong local champions.
They delivered their verdict on the Government’s failure to hold water companies to account for dumping raw sewage into our rivers and onto our beaches.
Water company bosses were paid fifteen million pounds in bonuses last year – rewarded for destroying our precious natural environment.
Three of those executives have now turned down their bonuses, but they should never have been entitled to them in the first place.
So will the Government now ban these sewage bonuses until the dumping stops?
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