{"id":60247,"date":"2025-08-05T15:50:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/mps-write-to-yorkshire-water-over-1-3m-payments\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:50:56","slug":"mps-write-to-yorkshire-water-over-1-3m-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/mps-write-to-yorkshire-water-over-1-3m-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs write to Yorkshire Water over \u00a31.3m payments"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Rother Valley MP Jake Richards is one of the MPs to ask for “urgent answers”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A group of Yorkshire Labour MPs have written to the chair of their region’s water company to demand answers over “disgraceful” payments made to its chief executive. <\/p>\n

The MPs, which include Rother Valley’s Jake Richards and Bradford West MP Naz Shah, are addressing the \u00a31.3m in previously undisclosed payments paid to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw. <\/p>\n

The company has previously defended the payments, saying they were from the firm’s parent company Kelda Holdings, which is based offshore. <\/p>\n

MPs have now written to the company’s chair Vanda Murray calling for full transparency over the payments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Richards said: “At a time when constituents are facing a 41% increase in water bills, sewage is polluting our rivers, and pipes are bursting, the CEO is accepting payments that completely contradict her public statements. <\/p>\n

“Nicola Shaw promised she would decline bonuses out of respect for public anger, while in private she accepts even more money.”<\/p>\n

He said this was the reason why public confidence in water companies was at “rock bottom”. <\/p>\n

Yorkshire Water, which announced a hosepipe ban for millions of users in July, was one of six firms banned from paying “unfair” bonuses to their executives this year.<\/p>\n

A report in The Guardian said Ms Shaw had received \u00a31.3m in previously undisclosed extra pay<\/a> since 2023 from Yorkshire Water’s parent company, Kelda Holdings.<\/p>\n

The company said this was for work including “investor engagement, financial oversight, and management of the Kelda Group”, and the money came from shareholders.<\/p>\n

It said the payments were made in addition to her \u00a3660,000 salary, and came from Kelda Holdings, which is registered in Jersey. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It has emerged Nicola Shaw was paid an extra \u00a31.3m in undisclosed payments<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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In the letter to Ms Murray, the MPs said: “It is disgraceful that Ms Shaw has publicly refused bonuses and yet discreetly accepted large payments.”<\/p>\n

The also pose a series of detailed questions, including why she was paid \u00a31.3m in addition to her salary, why Yorkshire Water’s parent company is based offshore and if Ms Shaw’s payments were an indirect substitute for bonuses she had publicly declined?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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MPs to sign the letter include: <\/p>\n