Did your MP take action on Cost of Water Privatisation Day?

On Tuesday 10th of September, 90 Parliamentarians joined We Own It and a host of water campaigners to discuss the sewage scandal facing our rivers and seas.

Many were suprised to hear that:

1. all water companies are failing to meet the targets set by regulators and are breaking the law;
2. the government has the power to remove water company licences and cut their debts through Special Administration;
3. that shareholders are set to extract £12.5 billion over the course of this Parliament alone.

As they arrived, MPs noted that they'd had lots of constituents get in touch asking them to join the session. Over 10,000 people wrote to their MP across the country asking them to attend.

Thanks to campaigners from Windrush Against Sewage Pollution, Ilkley Clean River Group, Henley Mermaids, Save Windermere, and UNISON for briefing the MPs who attended.

Here's a full list of MPs who joined the session:

1. Greg Stafford MP — Farnham and Bordon
2. Victoria Collins MP — Harpenden and Berkhamsted
3. Adam Dance MP — Yeovil
4. Martin Wrigley MP — Newton Abbot
5. Sureena Brackenridge MP — Wolverhampton North East
6. Vikki Slade MP — Mid Dorset and North Poole
7. Carla Denyer MP — Bristol Central
8. Alistair Strathern MP — Hitchin
9. Anna Sabine MP — Frome and East Somerset
10. Adam Jogee MP — Newcastle-under-Lyme
11. Patrick Hurley  MP — Southport
12. Alex Brewer MP — North East Hampshire
13. Steff Aquarone MP — North Norfolk
14. Alison Bennett MP — Mid Sussex
15. Chris Bloore MP — Redditch
16. Chris Ward MP — Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven
17. Jo White MP — Bassetlaw
18. Jess Brown-Fuller MP — Chichester
19. Sarah Gibson MP — Chippenham
20. Lloyd Hatton MP — South Dorset
21. Liz Jarvis MP — Eastleigh
22. David Smith MP — North Northumberland
23. Alice Macdonald MP — Norwich North
24. Mark Sewards MP — Leeds South West and Morley
25. Mike Reader MP — Northampton South
26. Sean Woodcock MP — Banbury
27. Sir Desmond Swayne  MP — New Forest West
28. Catherine Fookes MP — Monmouthshire
29. Perran Moon MP — Camborne and Redruth*
30. Andrew George MP — West Cornwall and the Isle of Scilly
31. Sarah Russell MP — Congleton
32. Shockat Adam MP — Leicester South
33. Kirith Entwistle MP — Bolton North East
34. James MacCleary MP — Lewes
35. Rebecca Smith MP — South West Devon*
36. Mims Davies MP — East Grinstead and Uckfield*
37. Roz Savage MP — South Cotswolds
38. Tom Gordon MP — Harrogate & Knaresborough
39. Rachel Taylor MP — North Warwickshire and Bedworth*
40. Lee Dillon MP — Newbury
41. Nevendu Mishra MP — Stockport
42. Anna Dixon MP — Shipley
43. Cat Smith MP — Lancaster and Wyre
44. Clive Lewis MP — Norwich South
45. Richard Quigley MP — Isle of Wight West
46. Jayne Kirkham MP — Truro and Falmouth
47. Luke Pollard MP — Plymouth, Sutton, and Devon
48. Andy McDonald MP — Middlesbrough and Thornaby East
49. Claire Young MP — Thornbury & Yate
50. Helen Maguire MP — Epsom and Ewell
51. Olivia Blake MP — Sheffield Hallam
52. Josh Fenton-Glynn MP — Yes
53. Polly Billington MP — East Thanet
54. Bayo Alaba MP — Southend East and Rochford
55. Pippa Heylings MP — South Cambridgeshire
56. Lorraine Beavers MP — Blackpool North and Fleetwood
57. John Milne MP — Horsham
58. Chris Hinchliff MP — North East Hertfordshire
59. Danny Chambers MP — Winchester
60. John Whitby MP — Derbyshire Dales
61. Ian Byrne MP — Liverpool West Derby
62. Olly Glover MP — Didcot and Wantage
63. Tim Farron MP — Westmorland and Lonsdale
64. Brian Mathew MP — Melksham and Devizes
65. Ellie Chowns MP — North Herefordshire
66. Luke Myer MP — Middlesbrough South
67. Ben Maguire MP — North Cornwall
68. Maya Ellis MP — Ribble Valley
69. Jonathan Brash MP — Hartlepool
70. Bambos Charalambous MP — Southgate and Wood Green
71. Ben Lake MP — Ceredigion Preselli
72. Munira Wilson MP — Twickenham
73. Edward Morello MP — West Dorest
74. Darren Paffey MP — Southampton Itchen
75. Manuela Perteghella MP — Stratford-on-Avon
76. Sally Jameson MP — Doncaster Central
77. Harpreet Uppal MP — Huddersfield
78. Daisy Cooper MP — St Albans
79. Calum Miller MP — Bicester and Woodstock
80. Lisa Smart MP — Hazel Grove
81. Greg Smith MP — Mid Buckinghamshire
82. Grahame Morris MP — Easington*
83. Angus MacDonald MP — Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire
84. Baggy Shanker MP — Derby South
85. Rachel Gilmour MP — Tiverton and Minehead*

We were also joined by two Peers:

1. Baroness (Christine) Blower
2. Baron (Prem) Sikka

*MPs we believe attended or were represented by their staff.