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Overcharging By Welsh Water Plc

EDM number 1085 in 1993-94, proposed by Rhodri Morgan on 20/04/1994.

That this House is appalled that Welsh Water plc has been permitted by the Office of Water Regulation and the Welsh Office, its previous sponsoring department, to defraud its consumers of ú9.9 million through the entirely secret deal allowed by the Welsh Office in 1989 and extended by the Office of Water Regulation in February 1994 to overcharge consumers on the ostensible premise that the sum allocated was to be spent on sewer renewal, but which the Sewer Renovation Federation has now established has been banked by Welsh Water and the other water and sewerage franchise monopolies; is shocked that the so-called consumer watchdog, the Director-General of the Office of Water Regulation, has connived in this deception of the consumer; and calls on the Secretary of State for Wales and the said Director-General to refund to Welsh Water consumers the ú9.9 million taken under false pretences and hidden from view of both the taxpayer and consumer in a manner that constitutes a travesty of open and honest government.

This motion has been signed by a total of 49 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Rhodri Morgan20/04/1994Cardiff WestProposed
David Hanson20/04/1994DelynSigned
Llew Smith20/04/1994Blaenau GwentSigned
Kim Howells20/04/1994PontypriddSigned
Martyn Jones20/04/1994Clwyd South WestSigned
Paul Murphy20/04/1994TorfaenSigned
Paul Flynn20/04/1994Newport WestSigned
Nick Ainger20/04/1994PembrokeSigned
Win Griffiths20/04/1994BridgendSigned
Peter Hain20/04/1994NeathSigned
Alan Wynne Williams20/04/1994CarmarthenSigned
Bill Michie21/04/1994Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Eric Clarke21/04/1994MidlothianSigned
Alex Carlile21/04/1994MontgomerySigned
John Cummings21/04/1994EasingtonSigned
Jim Dowd21/04/1994Lewisham WestSigned
Derek Enright21/04/1994HemsworthSigned
Mike Hall21/04/1994Warrington SouthSigned
Tony Banks21/04/1994Newham North WestSigned
Harry Barnes21/04/1994North East DerbyshireSigned
Dennis Turner21/04/1994Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Alan Williams21/04/1994Swansea WestSigned
William McKelvey21/04/1994Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
John McAllion21/04/1994Dundee EastSigned
Lynne Jones21/04/1994Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Barry Jones21/04/1994Alyn & DeesideSigned
Eric Illsley21/04/1994Barnsley CentralSigned
Norman Hogg21/04/1994Cumbernauld & KilsythSigned
Peter Hardy21/04/1994WentworthSigned
Dennis Skinner21/04/1994BolsoverSigned
Ernie Ross21/04/1994Dundee WestSigned
Robert Parry21/04/1994Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Alan Meale21/04/1994MansfieldSigned
Peter Pike22/04/1994BurnleySigned
Michael Clapham22/04/1994Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Harry Cohen25/04/1994LeytonSigned
Jon Owen Jones26/04/1994Cardiff CentralSigned
Ken Livingstone26/04/1994Brent EastSigned
Michael Connarty26/04/1994Falkirk EastSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie26/04/1994Glasgow, PollokSigned
Robert Wareing26/04/1994Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Eddie Loyden27/04/1994Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Alan Simpson28/04/1994Nottingham SouthSigned
Andrew Miller28/04/1994Ellesmere Port & NestonSigned
John Heppell03/05/1994Nottingham EastSigned
Jean Corston10/05/1994Bristol EastSigned
Roger Godsiff11/05/1994Birmingham Small HeathSigned
Tommy Graham18/05/1994Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Allan Rogers25/05/1994RhonddaSigned

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