💧 The Pressure Builds: 19 Labour MPs Slam Severn Trent for Putting Profit Over Public Good💧

19 Labour MPs are publicly calling out Severn Trent for putting bonuses before basic infrastructure. Their letter could be a turning point — if more voices join in.

May 10, 2025

“There is much to be done to bring the industry up to a good standard… STW are not playing their part or taking the issue seriously.”
— Joint letter to Severn Trent CEO, 10 December 2024

Image: David Wiliams MP

View the letter and the full text on his website: (click here)

While Severn Trent Water continues to make headlines for environmental damage, infrastructure failures, and financial double-dealing, the opposition is no longer just coming from local residents in Crowle, North Lincs.

It’s now gone national — with 19 Labour MPs co-signing a blistering letter to CEO Liv Garfield, raising many of the same concerns we’ve been documenting for months.

📨 What the Letter Says

Dated 10 December 2024, the letter challenges Severn Trent on:

✅ Using “accounting tricks” to avoid making mandated investments — while continuing to reward shareholders and executives. As exposed on BBCs’ Panorama, December 2024:

✅ Continuing sewage dumping and infrastructure neglect, despite record profits.
✅ Proposing a 46% rise in water bills over five years — far above the national average.
✅ Ongoing investigations by OFWAT for harmful wastewater treatment practices.
✅ Failing to deliver on promises to reduce harm to rivers by 2030.

🔗 Read the full plain-text version of the MPs’ letter here (source)

📍 Why This Matters Here in Crowle

This isn’t abstract. It’s exactly what we’re seeing on the ground in North Lincolnshire:

Mud and raw sewage left in residential streets.
Heavy plant machinery on public roads — unmarked, unregistered, unregulated.
Wildlife displaced, drains obscured, footways blocked, houses shaken by diggers.
A council — and councillors — who refuse to hold Severn Trent accountable.
And of course, residents being silenced for daring to speak up.

What these MPs are calling out is not theoretical — it’s visible, documented, and still happening.

👥 Who Signed the Letter?

Among the 19 signatories:

David Williams (Stoke-on-Trent North)
Shaun Davies (Telford)
Cat Eccles (Stourbridge)
Gareth Snell (Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Sarah Edwards (Tamworth)
Sonia Kumar (Dudley)
…and many more Labour MPs across the Midlands who have had enough.

📤 Will Our MP Speak Out Too?

A letter has been sent to Lee Pitcher MP, our Labour MP for Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme, along with a request to:

Add his name to this letter.
Raise a formal concern with DEFRA, OFWAT, and the Environmental Audit Committee.
Demand accountability and transparency from Severn Trent here in Crowle.

Let’s see if he joins his colleagues —

📣 You Can Help Too:-

📚 Read the full archive & 📸 see the evidence
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📨 Write to your MP: Ask them to support the calls for independent regulation and community protection.

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👉 If you feel strongly about the issues raised in this article, then consider sending an e-mail to Crowle Town Council (clerk@crowleandealandcouncil.org) or North Lincolnshire Council (customerservice@northlincs.gov.uk) or even Councillor Julie Reed, (Cllr.juliereed@northlincs.gov.uk), and ask them why are residents being silenced?

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