MPs will seek to make water company bosses criminally liable for sewage spills under plans to amend legislation making its way through Parliament this week.
An amendment will be tabled to the Criminal Justice Bill, which is due to return to the Commons on Wednesday, to create new criminal offences for failing to meet specified performance measures to crack down on sewage spills.
Crucially, the amendment will also seek to introduce a new law to make senior managers in water firms personally criminally liable for failing to meet performance measures.
The headline, while technically true, is a bit disingenuous. Lib Dem MPs are tabling an amendment, that Labour may back, but the Tories probably won’t.
What seems wild to me is that the bosses aren’t liable for crapping in our water.
Surely that’s the point of being a highly paid figurehead. If it goes wrong then it will fall on your neck.
What are the chances that this goes nowhere.
You can hear those MPs screaming “EVASIVE MANOEUVRES!!”
How about starting with apprehending and incarcerating the companies poisoning the waters in the first place?Pray tell, how does one incarcerate a company?
We can figure something out with the responsible c-levels I guess, but fair enough
