I promised that if I was elected, I would fight every day to hold Southern Water to account.
Last year they left 30,000 people in Hastings without water for days on end. I am glad the CEO has finally agreed to pay compensation after I challenged him at the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee in Parliament.
As you know, up until now customers in Hastings were not given any compensation for the incident during the May bank holiday weekend last year.
It is only right that residents in Hastings get the compensation they deserve after what was such a distressing incident for our community.
I will keep up the pressure on Southern Water to fix their crumbling infrastructure, clean up our sea and guarantee a reliable water supply.
Most importantly, I have successfully campaigned for the Labour Government to raise the legal amount of compensation that water companies will have to give residents and businesses when water outages happen, and close the loopholes that water companies use to wriggle out of their responsibilities.
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