Noted concerns about short timescales for delivering district plans and housing targets being at odds with long-term water supply workforce challenges, highlighting the lack of increased water supply despite changes in house-building restrictions.

She commends her right hon. Friend for securing this debate on water supply challenges in Tonbridge and Malling, noting that with 19,000 more homes planned in his constituency, there is an urgent need to address the issue of water scarcity also affecting her own constituency where 20,000 homes are planned. She highlights current issues like water outages and reliance on tanker-supplied water, stressing the poor resilience. Asked about the action the water taskforce could take if South East Water's response is found to be inadequate, suggesting that David Hinton should no longer be chief executive due to recent outages. Also questioned the government's decision to shift housing targets from London to rural areas like Kent.

He commends the right hon. Gentleman for bringing forward the issue of water supply problems affecting housing development in his constituency, which he argues is also a case across the whole of the United Kingdom including Northern Ireland. He raises concerns about Northern Ireland Water's inability to meet the need and discouraging planned housing.