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Thames Water lobbying government to let it increase bills by 40% (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The UK’s largest water company was trying to strike a deal with the watchdog Ofwat that would give it permission to charge customers more to avoid having to be taken over by court-appointed special administrators, the Financial Times reported.

That plan would give Thames Water permission to increase bills by 40% by 2030, while also offering more leniency around regulator fines and rules around the dividends it can pay to shareholders.

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Last week, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) updated 30-year-old legislation on the special administration regime, which would allow existing shareholders to retain a stake in the company and make it less likely that failing water companies could be fully renationalised.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

Or... we take it back and tell them to sod right off.