Speeches by Tufnell.

“This is to both of you: how are you improving farmers’ confidence in the Government’s new strategy for eradicating bovine TB? The context of this is wide, but we have also heard this morning from a panel who talked very emotionally about the impact on the industry and on farmers, so if we could just start off with that…”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Newport West and Islwyn (Ruth Jones) and my good friend and constituency neighbour the hon. Member for Ceredigion Preseli (Ben Lake) for securing this debate. St David’s Day is a very important day for Wales, but particularly for my constituents in Mid and South Pembrokeshire. I li…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, and I will therefore make some progress, Madam Deputy Speaker. This crucial support will protect our theatres, cultural spaces and museums so that they can continue to play a central role in education, community engagement and tourism. Local sports clubs are at the heart of …”

“5. What plans her Department has to increase access to grassroots multi-sport facilities.”

“Haverfordwest County AFC is a fantastic football club in the wonderful constituency of Mid and South Pembrokeshire. The club works with local schools to facilitate football sessions for all pupils, and it provides a healthy breakfast and lunch for participants. It also runs a fantastic walking football club. Will the M…”

“Does the hon. Lady join me in welcoming the new Labour Government’s efforts, particularly through the industrial strategy, to fundamentally address the systemic problems around economic growth that have afflicted many communities in west Wales, including in my Pembrokeshire constituency?”

“I thank my hon. Friend—”

“That is your plan to provide 4.1%, but you have been receiving 6.5%.”

“Is 25% too much?”

“I am just going to come back to the pay point. Your pay is £3.2 million. You have said that those sewage spills do not make you feel good. We touched upon that Ofwat link. They say that “performance-related executive pay does not demonstrate a substantial link to delivery for customers and the environment”. You have ju…”

“Your profit was at £201 million.”

“Your dividend payments to shareholders outstrip the profits being made by your company.”

“I am sorry. Just quickly on dividends, you are responsible for more than 60,000 sewage spills lasting more than 440,000 hours, according to the latest report, which comes back to environmental performance. That is fine.”

“It was 6.5%.”

“Just stepping back, after all we have heard today, you have the largest pay package amongst all water company executives. The total shareholder return is nearly 15%. That is not quite as high as United Utilities, which has the highest returns. That level of return is coupled with your level of pay. When we compare that…”

“I am moving on separately.”

“Ofwat has said that your policy on performance-related pay “does not demonstrate a substantial link to delivery for customers and the environment”. That is in respect to you specifically.”

“We have established that you are a key player in the water sector and you have other roles outside of the company.”

“Stepping back, does that need to be re-evaluated? There is a pending class action lawsuit against six companies, including you, in respect to charging higher water bills for that performance?”

“It is just because you are only meeting six out of 12 of your key performance statistics. I do not want to relitigate everything that we just talked about.”