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Steve Reed: As I understand it, yes, it is. Now, we've got a catastrophe in our waterways because we have record levels of sewage being pumped out under the last Conservative government, and they stood back and took no action. Within months of the election, we had passed a water special measures bill that will give the regulator the power they need to ban the payment of those undeserved multi-million pound bonuses to water company executives.
Polluting water bosses will face personal criminal liability, which will focus their minds on stopping these outflows, but it also mandates compulsory monitoring of emergency overflows of the kind that your investigation is looking into, so that we and campaigners and the public will know within one hour exactly what is coming out of those overflows and then appropriate prosecution and action can follow. Matt Frei: That sounds quite convincing, but let's just try to unwrap that a little bit. So just to be clear, if the executive of a water company is seen to have allowed emergency overflows to continue, and in some cases, they've happened hundreds of times in particular outlets, that executive will be charged with a crime, will be held criminally liable? "Polluting water bosses will face personal criminal liability, which will focus their minds on stopping these outflows.
" – Steve Reed Steve Reed: Well, it will either be the executive or it can be the water company themselves. So we're increasing the severity of fines on water companies. We've got one of the biggest investigations ever going on into water.
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