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The Water Industry Commission for Scotland (WICS) (Scottish Gaelic: Coimisean Gnìomhachas Uisge na h-Alba) is the economic regulator of the water and sewerage industry in Scotland. Established in 2005, it is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government with statutory responsibilities.
For example Steve Robertson of the privatised Thames Water, which serves water to 10,000,000 people, [1] received a fixed salary of £745,000 in 2018, with potential bonus of £3,750,000 in 2020. [ 2 ] For a public-sector comparison, the UK prime minister is entitled to a salary of £167,391 [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and the Cabinet Secretary is entitled to ...
Colcannon is most commonly made with only four ingredients: potatoes, butter, milk and cabbage. Irish historian Patrick Weston Joyce defined it as "potatoes mashed with butter and milk, with chopped up cabbage and pot herbs". [3] It can contain other ingredients such as scallions (spring onions), leeks, laverbread, onions and chives.
Bòrd na Gàidhlig is a non-departmental public body constituted of members of the board, whose role is "to provide leadership, direction, support and guidance" to the body, and staff who are typically full-time public sector employees and who carry out the day-to-day work of the body.
Scottish Water provides drinking water to 2.46 million households and 150,000 business customers in Scotland. [3] Every day it supplies 1.34 billion litres of drinking water and takes away 847 million litres of waste water from customers' properties [4] and treats it before returning it to the environment.
A Scottish government spokesperson said ministers "place the utmost importance on the proper spending of public money" and that the report evidenced "unacceptable failures" at Wics.
The Water (Scotland) Act 1967 (c. 78) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reorganised the water supply industry in Scotland, by creating regional water boards to manage the treatment and supply of water to consumers, and a Central Scotland Water Development Board, which was responsible for developing new sources of water, and supplying that water to the regional water boards ...
A water board is a regional or national organisation that has very different functions from one country to another. The functions range from flood control and water resources management at the regional or local level (the Netherlands, Germany), water charging and financing at the river basin level (France), bulk water supply (South Africa), regulation of pricing and service quality of drinking ...