Barry Gardiner MP: written questions 2025
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Commonhold and LeaseholdMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25969More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of converting all existing residential leasehold tenure to commonhold on economic growth.
Answer: The government is committed to reinvigorating commonhold and making it the default tenure.Our forthcoming White Paper on reforms to commonhold will outline proposed reforms to the model and our plans to introduce a comprehensive new legal framework.The go...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDarwin PlusDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23708More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the future of the Darwin Plus programme.
Answer: In November 2024, Minister Doughty and Minister McCarthy met with the elected leaders and representatives of the Overseas Territories at the UK Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council. The UK Government confirmed that it would continue to work in p...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBiodiversity: British Overseas TerritoriesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23707More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of his Department's total biodiversity budget was spent on supporting biodiversity in the UK Overseas Territories in 2024-05.
Answer: UK Government biodiversity spend is across multiple organisations and this funding contributes to other objectives, such as water quality, net zero and food security. As such it is not possible to provide an exact figure of total domestic expenditure on b...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBiodiversity: British Overseas TerritoriesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23706More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of total percentage of the biodiversity for which the UK has global responsibility is located in the UK's Overseas Territories.
Answer: The Joint Nature Conservation Committee, as the Government’s statutory nature advisor, does not have, nor is it aware of, an estimate of the total percentage of the biodiversity for which the UK has global responsibility and is located in the UK Overseas ...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDarwin PlusDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23705More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what was the total funding allocated to projects by Darwin Plus in each financial year since 2019-20.
Answer: Total funding allocated to Darwin Plus projects in each financial year since 2019-20 is provided in the table below. YearTotal funding taken up by Darwin Plus projects 2019-2020£3.81m2020-2021£4.55m2021-2022£6.65m2022-2023£8.50m2023-2024£10.12m2024-2025£8...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMarine Protected Areas: FisheriesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23251More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the paper entitled Marine Protected Areas network report (2019 to 2024), published on 18 December 2024, what steps he plans to take to protect designated features wit
Answer: Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are already protected from the point of designation by the planning and marine licensing regimes that cover activities such as dredging for aggregates and construction of offshore wind farms. Fishing activity falls outside th...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSeas and Oceans: ConferencesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23250More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he will attend the UN Oceans Conference in June 2025.
Answer: The third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3), co-hosted by France and Costa Rica in June, will be at a critical time for the ocean and a stocktake of progress towards UN Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water. The UK is supportive of an action-orienta...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFishing CatchesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23249More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 January 2025 to Question 17503 on Fishing Catches, what (a) criteria and (b) thresholds were applied in deciding which instances of non-compliance with the
Answer: This is a devolved matter, and the information provided therefore relates to England only. In deciding how to manage instances of non-compliance, the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) follows the principles of inform, educate, enforce in accordance wit...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBiodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction AgreementForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22880More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 19633 on the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement, what recent assessment he has made of the extent to w
Answer: The Government is completely committed to ratification of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement,...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
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