If you can’t afford to clean the water before dumping it, you certainly can’t afford shareholder dividends or executive bonuses, right?

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The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has found the Government’s legal targets to improve the state of England’s rivers, lakes and coastal waters will be missed by a “considerable margin”.

The report from the OEP, which comes at a time when there is high public anger over the state of England’s polluted rivers and seas, warns investment is falling short by billions of pounds.

Labour’s shadow environment secretary Steve Reed called for those involved with water companies implicated in pollution to “end up in the dock”.

He told the Commons: “The environmental regulator has today condemned the disgusting state of our waterways caused by the Conservatives letting water companies pump them full of raw sewage.

Earlier in Defra questions, shadow environment minister Daniel Zeichner said farmers were struggling to remain viable under the Conservative Government.

Later in the session in response to a question on a potential visit of a United Nations food security representative to the UK, Mr Barclay asserted that local authorities were “banning meat”.

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