Water (Special Measures) Act 2025

After Clause 7, insert the following new Clause— <i class="text-centre">“Water regulator obligations</i>

After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause— “Water Restoration Fund

After Clause 7, insert the following new Clause— “Clean Water Authority

After Clause 7, insert the following new Clause— “Review of the water industry

After Clause 7, insert the following new Clause— “Abolition of the Water Services Regulation Authority

After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause— “Power to revoke licences

After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause— “Environmental duties with respect to chalk streams

After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause— “Overflows: sanction exception

Clause 7, page 11, line 25, leave out from “if” to end of line 28 and insert “— (a) it is held by a water undertaker or sewerage undertaker, or

Clause 8, page 12, line 32, at end insert— <span class="wrapped">“but, in relation to water supply licensees and sewerage licensees, includes those functions only so far as performed in respect of the activities to which their licences relate.””</span>

Clause 7, page 11, line 29, leave out “a reference to such licences includes those” and insert “regulations under this section may apply to water industry licences”

Clause 6, page 11, line 9, at end insert— “(11) Section 5(6) also applies for the purposes of this section.”

Clause 10, page 13, leave out lines 38 to 40

After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause— “Giving the Authority a primary duty to protect the environment

Clause 6, page 10, line 28, leave out subsection (7)

Clause 6, page 10, line 35, at end insert— “(8A) All fines imposed on the undertaker or its employees under this section by—

After Clause 7, insert the following new Clause— “Governance structure of the Authority

After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause— “Removal of Regulators’ Code and statutory growth duty in respect of regulation of water and sewerage undertakers

After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause— “Water companies: removal of enforcement undertakings

<i>Lord Roborough gives notice of his intention to oppose the Question that Clause 10 stand part of the Bill.</i>

Clause 2, page 4, leave out line 29 and insert— <i class="text-centre">““Pollution incident reduction plans</i>

Clause 2, page 5, leave out lines 17 to 19

Clause 2, page 4, line 30, leave out “sewerage” and insert “relevant”

Clause 2, page 4, line 37, leave out “sewerage”

Clause 2, page 4, line 28, leave out “Before section 95” and insert “After section 205”

Clause 1, page 2, leave out lines 38 and 39

Clause 1, page 4, line 25, leave out “2024” and insert “2025”

Clause 2, page 4, line 30, leave out “whose area is wholly or mainly in England”

Clause 2, page 5, line 9, leave out “sewerage”

Clause 2, page 4, line 35, leave out “sewerage”

Clause 1, page 2, line 42, at end insert— “(6A) The decision on whether such persons sit on a board, committee or panel is for the relevant undertaker to make.”

Clause 1, page 2, line 3, at end insert— “(d) requiring a relevant undertaker to report not less than annually to the Authority on actual or planned financial structuring or restructuring of the undertaker, including debt levels, commercial strategy and any associated risks, including to the long-term sustainability of the undertaking.”

Clause 1, page 2, line 42, at end insert— “(6A) The Authority must arrange quarterly meetings between its own representatives and civil society organisations for the purposes of—

Clause 1, page 2, line 8, at end insert— “(iia) meeting relevant standards issued under the Flood and Water Management Act 2010, in particular the standards in Schedule 3 (sustainable drainage),”

Clause 1, page 4, line 25, at end insert— “(5) The first rules issued under section 35B of the Water Industry Act 1991 (as inserted by subsection (3)) must be published by the Authority within six months of this Act coming into force and provided to the Secretary of State and do not take effect until the Secretary of State has made regulations made by statutory instrument to bring them into effect.

Clause 1, page 2, line 42, leave out “board,”

Clause 1, page 4, line 21, at end insert— “35E Rules about performance-related pay

Clause 1, page 2, line 41, after “consumers” insert “and representatives from environmental groups”

Clause 1, page 2, line 2, after “consumers” insert “and representatives from environmental groups”

Clause 2, page 4, line 31, leave out “and publish” and insert “, publish and implement”

Clause 1, page 4, line 33, leave out subsections (5) and (6)

Clause 1, page 2, leave out lines 4 to 8

Clause 2, page 5, line 10, at end insert— “(2A) A pollution incident reduction plan must, in particular, state how the undertaker intends to reduce the occurrence of pollution incidents in national parks that are attributable to its system.”

Clause 2, page 7, line 14, at end insert— “(5) An implementation report must be published on the relevant undertaker’s website in a form which is publicly accessible.”

Clause 1, page 2, line 8, at end insert— “(e) preventing a relevant undertaker from employing any individual who has been employed by the Authority in the preceding three years.”

To move the following Clause— “Rules about competitive procurement in water infrastructure

Clause 2, page 5, line 27, after "occurrence" insert "and impact”

To move the following Clause— “Database of performance of sewerage undertakers

To move the following Clause— “Environmental duties with respect to national parks

To move the following Clause— “Special administration orders: credit ratings

Clause 1, page 2, line 3, at end insert— “(ca) requiring the management board of a relevant undertaker to include at least one representative of each of the following—

Clause 1, page 4, line 35, leave out from “force” to the end of line 40

Clause 1, page 1, line 11, at end insert— “(1A) The Authority must use its power under subsection (1) to issue rules which require—

To move the following Clause— “Ofwat consideration of pollution targets for price reviews

Clause 2, page 5, line 29, at end insert— “(ea) the use the undertaker plans to make of nature-based solutions for reducing the occurrence and impact of pollution incidents,”

To move the following Clause— “Independent review: companies exiting a special administration regime

To move the following Clause— “Responsibility in relation to planning issues

Clause 2, page 5, line 9, after "occurrence" insert "and impact”

To move the following Clause— “Principles of best regulatory practice

To move the following Clause— “Companies to be placed in special measures for missing pollution targets

To move the following Clause— “Ofwat to publish guidance on debt levels after administration

To move the following Clause— “Review of price review process

To move the following Clause— “Rules about competitive procurement in water infrastructure

To move the following Clause— “Rules about performance-related pay

To move the following Clause— “Rules about borrowing

To move the following Clause— “Ofwat consideration of pollution targets for price reviews

To move the following Clause— “Duty to prevent chemical pollutants entering the water environment

To move the following Clause— “Impact of the Act on the Environment Agency

To move the following Clause— “Database of performance of sewerage undertakers

To move the following Clause— “Abolition of the Water Services Regulation Authority

To move the following Clause— “Water Restoration Fund

To move the following Clause— “Duty to publish maps of sewage catchment networks

To move the following Clause— “Duty on sewerage undertakers to monitor overflows at sewage treatment works, pumping stations and on the sewer network

To move the following Clause— “Licence conditions about nature recovery

To move the following Clause— “Establishment of Water Restoration Fund

To move the following Clause— “Database of performance of sewerage undertakers

To move the following Clause— “Prohibition on bail-out of water company shareholders and creditors

To move the following Clause— “Companies to be placed in special measures for missing pollution targets

To move the following Clause— “Civil penalties: equivalent reduction to customer bills

To move the following Clause— “Special provision in charges schemes