Polly has welcomed the decision to charge four former Southern Water employees with fraud. She said:
“The decision to charge the former Chief Executive of Southern Water and three others over allegations that they planned to manipulate water quality tests to avoid paying financial penalties of £45m sends an important message to water companies that they must take seriously their obligations to tackle pollution and clean up their act. I welcome this enforcement action by the Environment Agency, and as the MP for East Thanet will continue to campaign for robust action to increase accountability in Britain’s broken water industry.”