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Ofwat and Regulatory Failure
Ruth Tarrant
13th January 2016
The Commons' Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has criticised the UK water regulator Ofwat for poor oversight of the water companies it is meant to be regulating, resulting in households paying too much for their water bills.
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Ruth Tarrant
Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.
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