Caroline regularly meets with Southern Water and keeps local people updated on what she is doing to ensure that the water infrastructure is appropriate.
In April she met the Chief Customer Officer to request a public meeting with Southern Water's management team. In September she held a public meeting to give local people the chance to scrutinise the actions of their water company.
Caroline tabled an amendment to the Tobacco and Vapes Bill that received support from MPs from across the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, and Green parties. The amendment aimed to give tobacco companies 12 months to ensure that cigarette filters were no longer made with plastic. Currently, cigarette butts are made from cellulose acetate, a form of plastic which can take a decade to break down, doing considerable harm to the environment, wildlife and costing councils more than £40 million per year to clean up.
Caroline penned a letter to Southern Water to call for the company’s boss to reject a £691,000 incentive payment. The letter calls the payment to Chief Executive Lawrence Gosden at a time when billpayers are facing a prospective 46.7% rise in their bills ‘indefensible’.
