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On Monday the 21st of May Anne Marie Morris MP made a speech in the House of Commons in support of an urgent question asked by fellow Devon MP Anthony Mangnall regarding South West Water's handling of the Brixham contamination situation.
This has been a devastating event. Although constituents in Newton Abbot were not directly affected, this is an issue of trust, as my hon. Friend the Member for North Devon (Selaine Saxby) said. It is about trust in South West Water as an organisation—there is a long way to go before that trust is restored—but also about trust in the quality of our water, and in our regulators to hold organisations such as South West Water to account. What do Ofwat and the Drinking Water Inspectorate do to challenge the water plans that these water companies put out to test what could go wrong? What risk analysis and assessment is there? What contingency plans are put in place? Trust can be rebuilt not just through the inquiry, but by making absolutely sure that the regulators—in all their guises—have in place the appropriate testing to ensure that this sort of thing cannot happen again.
View Anne Marie's speech here: https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/dd5aed19-c65f-4bf2-8a37-dcaad209b…
And view the full Urgent Question here: https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/dd5aed19-c65f-4bf2-8a37-dcaad209b…