House of Commons - Draft Water Bill - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee - Sixth Report
Draft Water Bill

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 23 January 2013.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

Previous work by the Committee

2 Enabling legislation

3 Market reform

Retail reforms

Abolition of the Costs Principle

Establishing a level playing field

Exiting the retail market

Timescale for retail reform

Upstream Reforms

Investor confidence

De-averaging of prices

Loss of resilience

Timescale for upstream reform

Engagement with the devolved administrations

4 Omissions from the Draft Bill

Abstraction reform

Ofwat's duty to promote sustainable development

5 The Wider Policy Agenda

Sustainable Drainage and Reservoirs Guidance

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence