12 Jun 2025
Image description: Wide shot of the houses of Parliament. Image by Dominika Gregušová / Pexels. The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) heard evidence in person earlier this week from senior executives at Ofwat, Water UK, CCW, DEFRA and the Environment Agency as part of its current inquiry into water sector regulation. In […]
20 May 2025
Image: Houses of Parliament by Deniz Fuchidzhiev Legislation for Britain’s new publicly owned energy company has passed through Parliament. Great British Energy will invest in clean power projects across the UK as part of the government’s Plan for Change to become a clean energy superpower – helping to get off the rollercoaster of fossil […]
25 Jan 2025
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament has launched the next of its thematic inquiries, on fisheries and the marine environment. MPs will delve into the challenges facing the fishing sector, including access to labour and competing spatial pressures on the marine environment. The inquiry will see the Committee scrutinise the […]
08 Jan 2025
A reminder that The Environmental Audit Committee is undertaking an inquiry on flood resilience in England, focusing on how flood resilience can be strengthened in response to increasing risks from extreme weather, rising sea levels, and evolving flood hazards. Photo credit: Natural England Read the call for evidence for more information about this inquiry, and […]
19 Dec 2024
The Water (Special Measures) Bill was debated in the House of Commons on Monday evening at second reading stage. There is general cross-party support for the Bill, and MPs expressed anger over pollution, investment, dividends and lots more. There was also quite a lot of criticism for Ofwat. You can read the debate here and […]
17 Dec 2024
The Environmental Audit Committee of the UK Parliament is seeking views on the Government’s delivery of its environmental obligations under international marine treaties and the Government’s strategy for marine planning and protection. The United Nations’ (UN) 14th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) relates to the planet’s largest ecosystem, which refers to life below water. The 14th […]
11 Dec 2024
The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has launched a new inquiry to examine flood resilience in England as homes and businesses recover from more flooding misery in recent weeks. At the end of November, Storm Bert flooded in excess of 100 homes and over the weekend, Storm Darragh triggered over 200 flood warnings […]
12 Sep 2024
Crossbench peer Lord Krebs last week introduced the Environmental Targets (Public Authorities) Bill to the House of Lords. This would give public bodies a statutory objective to support the targets set under the Environment Act 2021 and Climate Change Act 2008. If passed the Bill would apply to over 40 government departments and agencies, including […]
