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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Eleni Courea Political Correspondent

Labour MPs urge Thames Water to recover £2.5m paid to executives in April

A Thames Water work van at a sewage treatment works
The letter also urged Thames to drop its request to Ofwat, the water regulator, for leniency over sewage fines. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Thames Water should claw back £2.5m in bonuses that were paid to executives in April, 27 Labour MPs representing constituencies served by the utility have urged.

The MPs said it was “disgusting” that the company was hiking water bills “to pay for executives’ failings when those same executives were receiving multimillion-pound bonuses”.

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