Privatisation

The Westminster government has today released its white paper, A new vision for water. It follows the Cunliffe Review, which was prevented at looking at ownership models. Steve Wright, Fire Brigades Union general secretary, said: “The UK water industry has failed to invest for decades. Over that...

The Fire Brigades Union has joined calls for the government to bring water into public ownership to ensure clean and adequate water supply firefighters need to safely tackle fires. The findings contained in the final report of the Westminster and the Welsh governments’ “Independent Water Commission”...

Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack has told a cross-party committee of MPs that “governments for decades” have been responsible for reducing emphasis on fire safety, in a session on post-Grenfell building rule changes yesterday. He said “I lived through a decade where the endless...

The Fire Brigades Union has warned that the crisis facing the county’s fire and rescue service will worsen following agreement by Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Authority (CFRA) to a plan to use private contractor Serco to provide cover for chronic firefighter shortages in the county. A meeting of...

Responding to plans by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude to have the UK fire and rescue service run and delivered by a private company Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, said: “We are wholeheartedly against our service being delivered by a private company whose main motive will be to turn a...

The Fire Brigades Union has published a report calling for major energy firms to be brought into public ownership in order to tackle the climate crisis and stop spiralling consumer costs. In It’s time to take over the big energy firms the FBU contributes to the debate over the future of the energy...