They can’t be raised to cover it.
Comment on Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty
deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 days ago
Thanks Water immediately raise prices to cover it. Ditto Anglian Water.
Nationalise it, accounting for the infrastructure deficit rerouted to dividends. De-gravy train it.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Officer_Pickles@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Prices cannot be increased to cover it.
deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 days ago
Those might be the rules, but I was a child when the rules last actually applied or were applied.
No-one with any ability as a politician will go anywhere near politics this century. And when I say ability I mean moral compass.
Officer_Pickles@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The prices are only changed during the Price Review period. The next PR is PR29 during which business plans are submitted and agreed upon.