Environment Secretary pressures water boss to refuse pay rise | Daily Mail Online

Southern Water's chief executive should refuse a pay rise that almost doubled his income to £1.4million, the Environment Secretary has said. Steve Reed told the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg that Lawrence Gosden's £691,000 salary increase was 'outrageous' and implored the company to 'think about how this looks to their customers'. It comes amid a furious row over the pay and bonuses enjoyed by executives at water utilities which oversaw huge spikes in sewage leaks last year. The number of