The Latest Breaking News from Jon Cunliffe

Holyrood’s Climate Action and Energy Secretary has written to Steve Reed about ‘inaccurate and misleading comments’ about water quality in Scotland.

The Environment Secretary described supply and sewage infrastructure as being ‘critical for housing development’.

Britain's Labour government has decided to scrap Ofwat and establish a new watchdog to prevent "abuses of the past."

Ignore the Government spin. The recommendations of the Cunliffe Review are simply putting lipstick on a pig and fall pitifully short of the radical reform that’s needed to end the sewage scandal. So, Prime Minister, don’t take us for fools. If you let the water companies keep raking in profits…

The Government is abolishing Ofwat as part of a shake-up of water sector regulation.

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COMMENT: There is much to recommend in Sir Jon Cunliffe’s 88-point plan, says Sean O’Grady – not least that it paves the way for the utility to be brought back into public hands

Steve Reed said water companies have been ‘allowed to profit at the expense of the British people’

THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Should the UK's water system be rescued by a new super-regulator – or is it time to take it fully back into public hands?