Ben Maguire MP: written questions 2025

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Written questions

Shipping: RegistrationDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21940More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a detailed national registration system for leisure vessels.
Answer: The Secretary of State for Transport has not assessed this the potential merits of introducing a detailed national registration system for leisure vessels. Whilst registering on the Small Ships Register is not mandatory, small ship owners are encouraged t...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
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Boats: Environment ProtectionDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21939More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps her Department has taken to (a) reduce the number of abandoned leisure boats and (b) mitigate environmental damage from those boats.
Answer: The department has taken no recent steps to address either of the two issues raised in the question. The department has issued advice in the port marine safety code around the issue of abandoned vessels, but that advice is aimed at vessels which pose a th...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
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Renewable EnergyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21938More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will commission an independent review of alternative renewable energy technologies.
Answer: The Secretary of State does not intend to commission a separate independent review of alternative renewable energy technologies. DESNZ monitors new developments through the Net Zero Innovation Programme. Additionally, since 2012 the Energy Entrepreneurs F...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
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Renewable EnergyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21937More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions his Department has had with oil and gas companies on renewables policy.
Answer: Details of Ministers’ and Permanent Secretaries' meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK. Published declarations include the purpose of the meeting and the names of any additional external organisa...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
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Telecommunications: Rural AreasDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21936More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of attaching emergency batteries for mobile phones to telephone masts in rural areas.
Answer: Communications providers have a statutory responsibility to take measures to identify, prepare for and reduce anything that compromises the availability, performance or functionality of their networks and services. Some mobile phone masts have battery bac...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
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Voice over Internet Protocol: Rural AreasDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21935More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that rural communities remain connected following the digital switchover.
Answer: The digital switchover is an industry led programme. Customers in rural communities will not have their landlines migrated to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) without an available stable internet connection (VoIP only requires a minimum speed of 0.5mbp...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
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Sewage: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21934More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing the Environment Agency with ring-fenced funding from the proceeds of fines placed on water companies for breachin
Answer: The Water (Special Measures) Bill will deliver on the Government’s commitment to put water companies under special measures. It will drive meaningful improvements in the performance and culture of the water industry as a first important step in enabling w...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
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Parking: Private SectorMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21933More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department plans to take to tackle private parking companies issuing penalties to customers for taking too long to purchase a ticket due to (a) queues at the parki
Answer: The Government is committed to driving up standards across the private parking sector for the benefit of motorists.The Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019 places a duty on the Government to prepare a code of practice containing guidance about the operatio...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
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