MP presses Ofwat over water bills
PLYMOUTH Sutton MP Linda Gilroy has met the head of water regulator Ofwat to discuss proposals to lower water bills in the South West.
Mrs Gilroy said she met chief executive Regina Finn to examine how to take forward the proposals for lower bills.
At the end of last year Anna Walker's Independent Review of Water Metering and Charging singled out the region for particular attention, said Mrs Gilroy.
Mrs Gilroy said that, following the publication of the review, the Minister for Water, Huw Irranca Davies MP, asked the regulator to take immediate steps to do further work on the South West issues.
Mrs Gilroy said Ofwat had started to look at the possible options to 'relieve some of the burden' on South West customers.
"The Government wasted no time in asking Ofwat to examine some of the different proposals to deal with the issues of affordability and unfairness faced by water customers in Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall," she said.
"The purpose of the meeting was to gain an insight into Ofwat's early thinking to ensure that it chimes with what I have been seeking through my own campaign for lower bills."
2 Comments
by ! WHAT DO OUR, plymuoth
Wednesday, February 10 2010, 10:34PM
“why are we paying the second highest water rates in the south west !did you know you are being charge with exstortion with menace & you have aright of appeal to refuse to pay this £12 a year that is being foced upon us for the ones that refuse or cant pay! at least £350,ooo ooom plymouth is going into these fatcat forign shareholders pockets as the water runs as the contaminated water flows down from road to lopwell dam with all the effluient from mary tavi/tavistock sewage treatment works where millions of gallons of fluride/ clourine to dullour sences& is carcegenic where this so called drinking water is not fit to drink & useing us as a by pass conduit to the sea out let& to charge us for surface water when it would go down our drains naturalydo you thing they will except our billing for our bottled water we have to pay for! especially when we here that the buisness hoteliers are to have thier water charges reduced for swimming pools etc in the summer while we will be exspected to bepaying the increase in higher bills for this influcts better the RIVER AUTHORITIES CLEAN UP THIER ACT IN BEING SUBSIDISED WHEN WHERE FLOODED OUT OF OUR HOMES DUE TO THIER NEGLIGENTS & NOT PUTTING IN A PIPELINE OF FRESH CLEAN DRINKING WATER DOWN TO LOPWELL DAM FOR US CON CON CONSUMERSWHAT DOES OUR M.Ps OF D.E.F.R.A. SAY WHEN NOT FIDLING THIER EXSPENCES .FOR DUCK HOUSES IN THIER MOULT CASTLES WHEN THEY TURN A BLIND EYE TO THE TIPPING OF RADIO ACTIVE SLUDGE WASTE HAULED ON TO OUR LOCAL FARM PASTURE LANDS AT NEW ENGLAND QUARY & RIVER CAURSES GOING DOWN TO BRIXTON & YEALPTON & THEY EXSPECT US TO PAY FOR THIS TREATMENT! RENATIONALISE OUR UTILITIES THAT BELONG TO US.PROSPECTIVE M. P. RAY REES.”
by Britain Ruined by Bliar, Brooon., plymouth UK
Tuesday, February 09 2010, 3:41PM
“If you are on a fast sinking boat, you do not need a umbrella, lawn mower, or concrete mixer.
Plymouth does not need Gilroy, Streeter, or Pengelly.”