Reforming the water sector
Inquiry by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, 19 December 2024. Its page on the Parliament website.
Reports and responses
- 2nd report - Priorities for water sector reform (16 June 2025)
- 8th Report – Failures at South East Water (1 May 2026)
- 3rd Special Report - Failures at South East Water: Government Response (10 July 2026)
- 2nd Report - The future of Thames Water and special administration (18 September 2026)
Evidence sessions
- : Envisager; Veolia; Hugh Goldsmith, College of Europe & former head, Water Division, European Investment Bank
- 21 January 2025: Lawrence Gosden, Southern Water; Stuart Ledger, Southern Water
- 21 January 2025: Tom MacInnes, Citizens Advice; Dr Mike Keil, Consumer Council for Water; David Henderson, Water UK
- 26 February 2025: United Utilities; United Utilities
- 26 February 2025: Severn Trent Water
- 11 March 2025: Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water); Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water)
- 11 March 2025: Northumbrian Water; Northumbrian Water
- 12 March 2025: Anglian Water
- 12 March 2025: Wessex Water; Wessex Water
- 25 March 2025: Yorkshire Water; Yorkshire Water
- 25 March 2025: Susan Davy, Pennon Group (South West Water)
- 13 May 2025: Chris Weston, Thames Water; Sir Adrian Montague CBE, Thames Water; Steve Buck, Thames Water
- 17 June 2025: Sir Jon Cunliffe, Independent Water Commission
- 15 July 2025: Sir Adrian Montague CBE, Thames Water; Chris Weston, Thames Water; Ian Pearson, Thames Water
- 9 September 2025: Emma Hardy MP, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; David Hallam, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- 6 January 2026: Drinking Water Inspectorate
- 6 January 2026: David Hinton, South East Water; Tanya Sephton, South East Water
- 14 April 2026: Ofwat; Consumer Council for Water; Drinking Water Inspectorate
- 14 April 2026: David Hinton, South East Water; South East Water; South East Water
- 10 September 2026: Baroness Julia Aglionby, Executive Director of the Foundation for Common Land; The Farmer Network Ltd; Westmorland Agricultural Society's Management
- 20 October 2026: Water UK; David Hall, Visiting Professor, University of Greenwich, Public Services International Research Unit; Kings College London; Loughborough University
- 20 October 2026: Dr Marine Colon, researcher at AgroParisTech and the UMR G-EAU research unit in France; Klaas Schwartz, Professor Water Services Governance at IHE Delft, Netherlands