Andrew Snowden MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Soil: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26765More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent soil degradation on agricultural land impacted by repeated flooding.
Answer: The Sustainable Farming Incentive provides payments for several actions to improve soil health, including herbal leys and multi-species cover crops. Healthy soils have improved resilience to extreme weather and will recover faster from flood events. Susta...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSewersDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26764More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to bring forward legislation on sustainable drainage systems.
Answer: The Government is strongly committed to requiring standardised Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in new developments. These should be to designs that cope with changing climatic conditions as well as delivering wider water infrastructure benefits, reduc...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEndometriosis: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26644More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure women presenting symptoms of endometriosis receive sufficient care during early stages of diagnosis.
Answer: The Government is committed to prioritising women’s health and improving the diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing care for gynaecological conditions, including endometriosis. Several measures are in place to raise awareness of endometriosis among clinicians ...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordApprentices and Vocational EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 902396More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support the uptake of apprenticeships and technical education.
Answer: The department wants apprenticeships and technical education to be part of career conversations in every school so that young people can access the opportunities they deserve. We have set clear requirements through strengthened legislation and statutory g...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Insurance Taskforce: MembershipDepartment for TransportTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the membership is of the motor insurance taskforce announced on 16 October 2024; and what progress the taskforce has made.
Answer: The cross-government Motor Insurance Taskforce is comprised of ministers from relevant government departments and the Financial Conduct Authority and Competition and Markets Authority. The taskforce is supported by a separate stakeholder panel of industry...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWind Power: Lytham St AnnesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25386More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether proposals to temporarily close parts of St Anne’s beach to lay cables to connect the Morgan and Morecambe windfarm to its substations includes provisions to compensate affected busine
Answer: All relevant information on the Morgan and Morecambe transmission assets can be found on the appropriate project page of the Planning Inspectorate website. The developers set out their proposals for a contingency fund to address temporary business disrupt...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWind Power: FyldeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24993More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on the area’s badger population of proposals for the Morgan and Morecambe (a) cabling corridor and (b) substations.
Answer: National Energy System Operator considered the onshore and offshore impacts of the proposals for the Morgan and Morecambe windfarms cable corridor and substation on sensitive habitats as part of its Holistic Network Design.[1] Following this, the develope...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWind Power: FyldeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24992More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact on biodiversity of proposals for the Morgan and Morecambe windfarm (a) cabling corridor and (b) substations.
Answer: National Energy System Operator (NESO) considered the environmental impacts of the proposed Morgan and Morecambe windfarms cabling corridor and substation as part of its Holistic Network Design (HND).[1] The developers, BP and EnBW, have submitted detaile...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: LancashireDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24722More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve teacher (a) recruitment and (b) retention in (i) Lancashire and (ii) Fylde constituency.
Answer: The within school factor that makes the biggest difference to a young person’s educational outcome is high quality teaching. Recruiting and retaining more qualified, expert teachers is therefore critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: LancashireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24721More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to NHS dentistry in (a) Fylde constituency and (b) Lancashire.
Answer: The Government plans to tackle the challenges for patients trying to access National Health Service dental care with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and recruit new dentists to the areas that need them most. To rebuild den...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNurses: LancashireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24720More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether nursing positions for the provision of care in corridors will be advertised in Lancashire.
Answer: The Department does not hold the information requested.
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Securities: Public Sector DebtTreasuryTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22764More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of increased long term gilt rates on Government borrowing costs.
Answer: The government does not comment on specific financial market movements. Gilt yields are determined by a wide range of international and domestic factors, and it is normal for the price and yields of gilts to vary when there are wider movements in global f...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving under Influence: ArrestsHome OfficeTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22763More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were (a) arrested and (b) charged for (i) drink and (ii) drug driving in December 2024.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally by the Home Office because drunk and drug driving offences are not among the list of offences for which police forces are currently required to notify the Home Office of data on arrests, charges and outcomes...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: LancashireHome OfficeTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22762More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Autumn Budget 2024 on the number of police officers in Lancashire.
Answer: If it maintains officer numbers at the required level of 3,586 officers.Total funding to police forces in 2025-26will be up to £17.4 billion, an increase of up to £987 million compared to the 2024-25 police funding settlement.This includes a £657.1 millio...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWind Power: FyldeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20865More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the answer of 17 December 2024 to question 19898 on Wind Power: Fylde, what account the cost assessments have taken of existing infrastructure connecting Stanah to Penwortham.
Answer: National Energy System Operator (NESO) recommended the transmission infrastructure required to connect Morgan and Morecambe offshore wind projects to the grid as part of its Holistic Network Design (HND). In producing the HND, NESO assessed multiple onsho...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren: Care HomesDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19958More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of children being placed in residential children's homes more than 20 miles away from their family homes on their care.
Answer: The number of children looked after who were placed in secure homes and children’s homes over 20 miles from their family home on 31 March 2024 was 4,220.This is published in Table A4 of the ‘Children looked after including adoptions’ statistical release, ...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren: Care HomesDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19957More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are in a residential children's home over 20 miles from their family home.
Answer: The number of children looked after who were placed in secure homes and children’s homes over 20 miles from their family home on 31 March 2024 was 4,220.This is published in Table A4 of the ‘Children looked after including adoptions’ statistical release, ...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDriving under Influence: DrugsDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19929More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2024 to Question 15346 on Driving under Influence: Drugs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending section 5A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to inclu
Answer: Since the general election, the Department has begun work on a new Road Safety Strategy, the first in over a decade. The Department will share more details in due course.
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPlanning Permission: Public ConsultationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19927More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department issues to planning authorities on (a) ensuring applications for lawful development certificates are properly assessed and (b) taking into account the
Answer: My Department has published Planning Practice Guidance on the topic of lawful development certificates, which can be found on gov.uk here.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordWind Power: FyldeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19898More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to his oral Answer to the Question from the hon. Member for Fylde of 8 October 2024, Official Report, column 140, whether his Department has made an assessment of the viability
Answer: The Electricity System Operator (then ESO, now NESO) assessed connection to the Stanah substation for Irish Sea windfarms alongside other substations in the Northwest and North Wales as part of the Holistic Network Design.[1] ESO identified that Stanah su...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPlanning: Rural AreasMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19895More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the National Planning Policy Framework, announced on 12 December 2024, on infrastructure and services in (a) Fylde constit
Answer: The revised National Planning Policy Framework published on 12 December makes clear that the purpose of the planning system is to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development, including the provision of necessary infrastructure and facilities....
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPlanning: Rural AreasMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure the reforms set out in the National Planning Policy Framework, published on 12 December 2024, safeguard the beauty and character of (a) Fylde c
Answer: The revised National Planning Policy Framework published on 12 December retains strong safeguards in relation to the beauty and character of all parts of the countryside.
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPlanning: Local GovernmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19892More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government will take with respect to councils who do not meet the targets set out in the National Policy Planning Framework, announced on 12 December 2024.
Answer: The government expects local planning authorities to explore and exhaust all options to deliver the homes their communities need.An authority’s ability to meet their housing need through plan-making will be tested at a public examination, which will asses...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPlanning: Local GovernmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19890More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of removing the role of elected councillors from certain planning processes under the new National Planning Policy Framework
Answer: The National Planning Policy Framework sets out the government’s planning policies for England and how these should be applied. It makes no reference whatsoever to the role of elected councillors.In the King’s Speech, we set out our intention to use the f...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEconomic SituationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19889More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of paragraph 2.45 of the Office for Budget Responsibility's report entitled Economic and fiscal outl
Answer: The Office for Budget Responsibility October Economic and Fiscal outlook based their forecast on the existing policy environment, and did not take account of the impact of policies that we have announced.The Plan for Change published on 5 December 2024 se...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
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