The system of regulating water companies needs "a complete overhaul" as the sector hikes customer bills, MPs have said.

The PAC has called for a "low risk, low return" water sector amid scrutiny over excessive dividends and murky company structures.

The claim is that the four rebels and three MPs who lost envoy status are persistent rebels, but this is an overreaction. In either case, it is clear the backbenchers felt ignored and undervalued, and that the government failed to take their concerns seriously in the first place.

MPs on the public accounts committee said the system of regulating water companies needs 'a complete overhaul' to rebuild trust and ensure its poor performance improves

C hancellor Rachel Reeves inadvertently breached parliamentary rules by missing the deadline for registering gifts, the MPs' watchdog has concluded.

As fresh details of the controversy emerged on Thursday, free speech campaigners said the use of the courts to prevent the public from knowing about the security breach, and subsequent secret asylum scheme, should never be repeated.

Several MPs have called for the government to push for targets to reduce plastic waste at the next round of plastic treaty negotiations.

A group of Liberal Democrat MPs ask the culture secretary Lisa Nandy to intervene over Crystal Palace's demotion from the Europa League.

At the Montgomery school board meeting in July, Superintendent Zickeyous Byrd reviewed his plan for his first 100 days in office.