Speeches by Gardiner.
Every Hansard contribution by Barry Gardiner this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 801–820 of 1,426 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “The second tranche was conditional on you putting in a challenge to the CMA against Ofwat’s PR24 price control ruling, was it not?” | 23 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “You do not believe that is right?” | 7 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “You put your CMA challenge on hold, did you not?” | 10 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “Is it still on hold, or have you abandoned it?” | 10 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “Did you put it on hold because the CMA challenge could not report back in time to let potential equity investors see the final price control in order to invest or develop their engineering plan of what they are going to spend and how they are going to deliver it?” | 50 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “So when was PR24 capital investment programme due to start? Was it April 2025?” | 14 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “So the CMA challenge would only have reported back in October, which would have been a six-month delay. Is that correct?” | 21 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “So even more than a six-month delay.” | 7 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “As I said, the CMA challenge would have put the final adjudication and decision on what your investment allowance was back beyond the point at which your future potential equity investors would have wanted to start the programme, would it not?” | 41 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “It certainly follows if AMP8 was supposed to start in April 2025, and yet you could not get investors in if they did not know how much they were going to be allowed to invest in the company and how much work was going to be agreed to be done with the regulators.” | 53 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “But you were going to appeal it, and you told me that you had put the appeal on hold in order to challenge that determination by Ofwat.” | 27 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “Let us move on to those understandings. How far behind are you on the investment programme on AMP7, PR19?” | 19 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “How far behind are you on not just AMP7, but also on WINEP7 programmes?” | 14 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “When KKR was bidding, because of its size—£638 billion—it boasted that it could, “Bully the Treasury into stopping Ofwat and the EA from imposing the penalties and fines.” Is that why you chose them as your preferred bidder?” | 38 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “You will recognise that that was a claim that they did make.” | 12 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “Indeed.” | 1 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “You are paying for it.” | 5 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “You are paying for all the work that KKR wants. Let us not try to bluff.” | 16 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “Let us get back to the point that the Chair and I were in the process of making, and that is that you chose to eliminate those others from the bid. In response to the Chair, what you said was that there came a point when you had to do this, it was the right thing to do, and those bids fell away. Yet we have heard from …” | 123 |
| 13 May 2025 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 588) “Oh no, not another explanation. Come on. Just answer it.” | 10 |