Speeches by Dewhirst.

“My apologies, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister has just said that once he has rolled out this digital ID scheme, we will be able to access certain things that we cannot currently access. Can he list exactly what services we will be able to access?”

“Not only is the despotic Iranian regime gunning down protesters in the street, but it continues to support terrorist proxies such as Hamas and Hezbollah, it provides drones to the Russian military in Ukraine and it remains a very real threat to this country. While I welcome the statement, will the Foreign Secretary ass…”

“It very much feels like we are back to the future, and like the Minister is channelling her inner Charli XCX and just wants to go back to 1999, because 27 years later, here we are with a Labour Government who are at war with the countryside, discussing issues like hunting, potentially enormously damaging changes to the…”

“And that is something that you are looking to rectify through your investment going forward?”

“During that time, did you try and restart the process multiple times?”

“Pembury remains a single point of failure. Can you assure the Committee that there was no other alternative that could have been used at that point? Was there not any other interconnected system that could have relieved the issue in Tunbridge Wells?”

“Can you explain to the layman why that change in water quality may have occurred so unexpectedly?”

“In terms of the previous risk notice, we have already talked about your investment and plans. In hindsight, was there something that you could have done sooner to improve the Pembury site to avoid this incident?”

“There is quite a jump from realising that there is an issue and trying to solve it to a total outage across Tunbridge Wells. That seems quite a sudden escalation. Is that fair?”

“And it failed each time and therefore you reached a point where you had to escalate and inform customers?”

“During that time, did you try and restart the process multiple times?”

“Did you attempt to fix the issue before that point and before you went further?”

“There is quite a jump from realising that there is an issue and trying to solve it to a total outage across Tunbridge Wells. That seems quite a sudden escalation. Is that fair?”

“Was that a decision taken at the highest level by yourself, or was it taken further down the organisation?”

“Was that a decision taken at the highest level by yourself, or was it taken further down the organisation?”

“Did you attempt to fix the issue before that point and before you went further?”

“Yes, looking more specifically at the Tunbridge Wells incident, the evidence we have received as a Committee suggests there was something of a delay between you being aware of the issue and the council and local resilience forum being informed. Is that a fair assessment?”

“And in terms of a timeline to be able to put people into a position of resilience?”

“And that is something that you are looking to rectify through your investment going forward?”

“Yes, looking more specifically at the Tunbridge Wells incident, the evidence we have received as a Committee suggests there was something of a delay between you being aware of the issue and the council and local resilience forum being informed. Is that a fair assessment?”