Edward Morello MP: written questions
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Motor Insurance: CostsDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38831More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Motor Insurance Taskforce is taking to help reduce the cost of motor insurance.
Answer: The cross-Government motor insurance taskforce was launched in October. It 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 s...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Insurance TaskforceDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38830More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has set a timetable for future meetings of the Motor Insurance Taskforce.
Answer: The cross-Government motor insurance taskforce was launched in October. It 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 s...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Insurance TaskforceDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38829More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when her Department plans to publish an update on the work of the Motor Insurance Taskforce.
Answer: The cross-Government motor insurance taskforce was launched in October. It 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 s...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Restoration FundDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38828More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that Water Restoration Fund funded projects achieve their intended outcomes.
Answer: The Water Restoration Fund is reinvesting funding based on water company environmental fines and penalties into projects to improve the water environment. Up to £11 million of funding was made available on a competitive basis to support a range of water r...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Restoration FundDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38827More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how he (a) monitors and (b) evaluates the effectiveness of projects financed by the Water Restoration Fund.
Answer: The Water Restoration Fund is reinvesting funding based on water company environmental fines and penalties into projects to improve the water environment. Up to £11 million of funding was made available on a competitive basis to support a range of water r...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Restoration FundDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38826More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how the criteria for the Water Restoration Fund ensure the prioritisation of projects with the highest impact on the environment.
Answer: The Water Restoration Fund is reinvesting funding based on water company environmental fines and penalties into projects to improve the water environment. Up to £11 million of funding was made available on a competitive basis to support a range of water r...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Restoration FundDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38825More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria his Department uses to assess funding applications for the Water Restoration Fund.
Answer: The Water Restoration Fund is reinvesting funding based on water company environmental fines and penalties into projects to improve the water environment. Up to £11 million of funding was made available on a competitive basis to support a range of water r...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Charging PointsDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38824More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to support local authorities in west Dorset to expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Answer: The Government is committed to accelerating the roll-out of affordable and accessible charging infrastructure so that everyone, no matter where they live or work, can make the transition to an electric vehicle. The Government and industry have supported t...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Charging PointsDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38823More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to increase the number of fast charging points for electric vehicles in West Dorset constituency over the next five years.
Answer: The Government is committed to accelerating the roll-out of affordable and accessible charging infrastructure so that everyone, no matter where they live or work, can make the transition to an electric vehicle. The Government and industry have supported t...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Charging PointsDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38822More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many fast charging points for electric vehicles are operational in West Dorset constituency.
Answer: Data on the number of public electric vehicle charging devices in the West Dorset constituency, provided by the electric vehicle charging platform Zapmap as of 1 January 2025, are given in the table below, categorised by standard speed groupings. Higher p...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAviation: DisabilityWomen and EqualitiesTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 903266More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Transport on improving the accessibility of air travel for people with disabilities.
Answer: Aviation needs to be accessible so everyone can travel with dignity and ease. The Department for Transport’s Aviation Accessibility Task and Finish Group was launched in November. I look forward to seeing its recommendations for improving aviation accessi...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence Equipment: Manufacturing IndustriesMinistry of DefenceTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37936More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has conducted a feasibility study on increasing domestic production of critical weapon systems.
Answer: The Strategic Defence Review will determine the roles and capabilities required by UK Defence to meet the challenges and threats of the twenty-first century. The Prime Minister’s February announcement that spending on defence will increase to 2.5% of GDP ...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnvironmental Land Management SchemesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the replacement scheme for the Sustainable Farming Incentive will be (a) index-linked to inflation and (a) provide greater financial support than the SFI scheme.
Answer: Prices in schemes have increased in the last 3 years to reflect inflation and pay a fair price for action. The overall budget has been set in the context of the Spending Review and is sufficient to continue rolling out schemes and paying farmers as planne...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37843More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to introduce a replacement scheme following the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme.
Answer: We have closed Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) for new applications because the current SFI budget has been successfully allocated, with large-scale uptake of the scheme and 37,000 live SFI agreements delivering towards our environmental targets. Now ...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37841More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons his Department decided to (a) announce the closure of and (b) close the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme to new applicants on the same day.
Answer: This Government has committed £5 billion over 2 years to sustainable farming and nature recovery and we’ve worked hard to get as many farmers into environmental land management schemes as possible. The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) now has more than...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37840More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the timing of the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme on farmers.
Answer: We publish regular statistics on Farm Business Income. Farming evidence packs for example have been recently updated including key statistics and farm performance. These set out an extensive range of data to provide an overview of agriculture in the UK. W...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming Incentive: West DorsetDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37839More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the number of farms that hadn't applied to the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme before its closure in West Dorset constituency.
Answer: Our recent published statistics on area under agri-environment schemes can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/area-under-agri-environment-schemes-in-england-2024/area-under-agri-environment-schemes-in-england-at-31st-december-2024 The...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37833More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive on the viability of family farms.
Answer: 50,000 farm businesses are already in agri-environmental schemes. We will open up initial applications for Countryside Stewardship Higher tier and a revised Environmental Land Management capital grants offer later in the Summer. On the 11th of March 2025 ...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37832More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will make an estimate of the number of farms that did not apply for the Sustainable Farming Incentive before its closure.
Answer: On 31st December 2024, SFI23 agreements covered 39% of the utilised agricultural area (UAA) of England, and SFI expanded offer agreements a further 4%. Approximately 64% of the UAA of England was under an agri-environment scheme. Approximately 30% of the ...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37831More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to support farmers who did not apply for the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme before its closure.
Answer: This Government is proud to have secured the largest budget for sustainable food production in our country’s history, with £5 billion being spent to support farmers over a two-year period. Following the announcement that Defra has closed SFI for the submi...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37830More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the number of farms that had not applied for the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme before its closure.
Answer: On 31st December 2024, SFI23 agreements covered 39% of the utilised agricultural area (UAA) of England, and SFI expanded offer agreements a further 4%. Approximately 64% of the UAA of England was under an agri-environment scheme. Approximately 30% of the ...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCybersecurityHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37001More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on requiring technology companies to implement backdoors into encrypted services.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the response given to UIN 33378 answered on 3rd March 2025.
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCryptography: AppleHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37000More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential risks to UK users of Apple's removal of its advanced data protection feature.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the response given to UIN 33378 answered on 3rd March 2025.
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSewage: West DorsetDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36999More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of sewage discharges at (a) Charmouth West Stream and (b) Lyme Regis Church Cliff beach on (i) public health (ii)
Answer: For too long, water companies have discharged unacceptable levels of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas. It is the responsibility of water companies to invest in infrastructure and other improvements to reduce untreated wastewater pollution incidents....
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSewage: West DorsetDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36998More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to provide additional funding for local authorities to help tackle the impact of sewage pollution on (a) Charmouth West Stream and (b) Lyme Regis Church Cl
Answer: For too long, water companies have discharged unacceptable levels of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas. It is the responsibility of water companies to invest in infrastructure and other improvements to reduce untreated wastewater pollution incidents....
Answered 18 Mar 2025
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