Jim Allister MP: written questions
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Windsor Framework (Retail Movement Scheme: Plant and Animal Health) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8399More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to prepare for the coming into force of the Windsor Framework (Retail Movement Scheme: Plant and Animal Health) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024.
Answer: These regulations came into force on 2 September. Ministers and officials regularly engage with businesses, trade bodies and others to provide support and to inform our implementation of the Windsor Framework, including on these regulations.
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCity Deals and Local Growth Deals: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has had recent discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of reinstating the Causeway City and Growth deal.
Answer: The Government has inherited a £22 billion black hole in the public finances and, as a result, the Treasury is having to consider a range of measures to address this through the spending review.Since the announcement that the Causeway Coast and Glens and ...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordLocal Growth Deals: North AntrimTreasuryTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8090More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funding for the Bushmills area as part of the Causeway Coast and Glens growth deal.
Answer: We are continuing to work closely with all Deal partners to understand the benefits of the City and Growth Deals programme, including the Causeway Coast and Glens Growth Deal. Many of the City and Growth Deals have decades' worth of funding attached so it...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordForest Products: Northern IrelandCabinet OfficeTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8089More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) the Joint Consultative Working Group has had discussions on the application of EU Regulation 2023/1115 in Northern Ireland and (b) the group's meeting minutes are published.
Answer: The UK and EU regularly engage on the Windsor Framework and shared priorities, including the issue of deforestation. As was confirmed in the response to question UIN4798 on 16th September, Ministers are currently considering our approach to those matters,...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordForest Products: Northern IrelandCabinet OfficeTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8088More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee's Specialised Committees have had recent discussions on the application of EU Regulation 2023/1115 in Northern Ireland.
Answer: The UK and EU regularly engage on the Windsor Framework and shared priorities, including the issue of deforestation. As was confirmed in the response to question UIN4798 on 16th September, Ministers are currently considering our approach to those matters,...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordForest Products: Northern IrelandCabinet OfficeTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8087More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee has had recent discussions on the application of EU Regulation 2023/1115 in Northern Ireland.
Answer: The UK and EU regularly engage on the Windsor Framework and shared priorities, including the issue of deforestation. As was confirmed in the response to question UIN4798 on 16th September, Ministers are currently considering our approach to those matters,...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordForest Products: Northern IrelandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8086More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2024 to Question 4798, whether his Department has had discussions with (a) the Ulster Farmers Union and (b) businesses on the (i) potential cost
Answer: Ministers are currently considering our approach to Regulation 2023/1115 in Northern Ireland. The Government will communicate relevant arrangements at the earliest possible opportunity, noting also that the EU Commission has proposed to delay the implemen...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordForest Products: Northern IrelandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7708More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2024 to Question 4798 on Forest Products: Northern Ireland, what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterpart on the application of EU R
Answer: Ministers are currently considering our approach to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) in Northern Ireland, and the Government will communicate relevant arrangements at the earliest possible opportunity.
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordForest Products: Northern IrelandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7707More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2024 to Question 4798 on Forest Products: Northern Ireland, what estimate his Department has made of the annual costs to businesses in Northern I
Answer: Ministers are currently considering our approach to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) in Northern Ireland, and the Government will communicate relevant arrangements at the earliest possible opportunity.
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordForest Products: Northern IrelandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7706More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2024 to Question 4798 on Forest Products: Northern Ireland, what estimate his Department has made of the annual costs of running the competent bo
Answer: Ministers are currently considering our approach to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) in Northern Ireland, and the Government will communicate relevant arrangements at the earliest possible opportunity.
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordForest Products: Northern IrelandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7705More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2024 to Question 4798, what estimate he has made of the number of full-time equivalent staff needed for the work of the competent authority in No
Answer: Ministers are currently considering our approach to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) in Northern Ireland, and the Government will communicate relevant arrangements at the earliest possible opportunity.
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordForest Products: Northern IrelandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7704More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2024 to Question 4798 on Forest Products: Northern Ireland, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Northern Ireland Department o
Answer: Ministers are currently considering our approach to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) in Northern Ireland, and the Government will communicate relevant arrangements at the earliest possible opportunity.
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBuses: Electric VehiclesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7383More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what trade remedy measures to promote domestic manufacturing industries are in place in respect of electric bus manufacturing in the UK.
Answer: The UK does not have a trade remedy measure in place against imports of electric buses.
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBuses: Electric VehiclesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7382More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the tariff level applied to imported electric buses on local production; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of raising that
Answer: In setting tariffs, the Government takes into account the interests of UK consumers, producers, productivity, competitiveness, and external trade, as well as wider considerations such as strategic trade objectives.As with all policy, the Government welcom...
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordForest Products: Northern IrelandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4799More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what budget he plans to allocate to the competent authority for Northern Ireland under EU Regulation 2023/1115.
Answer: Ministers are currently considering our approach to Regulation 2023/1115 in Northern Ireland, and the Government will communicate relevant arrangements at the earliest possible opportunity.
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordForest Products: Northern IrelandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4798More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the process is for appointing the competent authority for Northern Ireland for EU Regulation 2023/1115.
Answer: Ministers are currently considering our approach to Regulation 2023/1115 in Northern Ireland, and the Government will communicate relevant arrangements at the earliest possible opportunity.
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordWinter Fuel Payment: Northern IrelandDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4322More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had discussions with Ministers in the Department for Communities in the Northern Ireland Executive on (a) eligibility for the winter fuel allowance and (b) that Department's access to ad
Answer: Ministers in the two Departments have discussed eligibility for Winter Fuel Payments in England and Wales, as part of continuing engagement between the UK Government and the Northern Ireland Executive. Winter Fuel Payments are a transferred matter in Nort...
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordNet Zero Hydrogen Fund: Northern IrelandDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 3 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4156More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much and what proportion of the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund was allocated to projects in Northern Ireland; and whether he plans to provide funding for green hydrogen generation in Northern Ire
Answer: The Net Zero Hydrogen Fund, launched in 2022, aims to support the commercial deployment of new low carbon hydrogen production projects during the 2020s. Through strands one and two of this scheme, two projects in Northern Ireland have been offered a total...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordDefence: Northern IrelandMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4155More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of maximising the geo-strategic potential of Northern Ireland in the defence of the UK (a) in general and (b) in the context of its position relative to weste
Answer: Northern Ireland plays an important role in defending the UK, particularly through its defence industry which continues to contribute to the support provided to Ukraine. The Strategic Defence Review, launched by the Prime Minister on 16 July, will determi...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordAir Force: Northern IrelandMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4154More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many full-time Royal Air Force service personnel (a) live and (b) work in Northern Ireland.
Answer: The below table shows the number of UK Regular personnel stationed in Northern Ireland by Service as at 1 July 2024. ServiceTotalRoyal Navy/Royal Marines5Army1,230RAF70 The figures provided are based on Service personnel's stationed location and not their...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordNavy: Northern IrelandMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4153More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many full-time Royal Naval service personnel (a) live and (b) work in Northern Ireland.
Answer: The below table shows the number of UK Regular personnel stationed in Northern Ireland by Service as at 1 July 2024. ServiceTotalRoyal Navy/Royal Marines5Army1,230RAF70 The figures provided are based on Service personnel's stationed location and not their...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Northern IrelandMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4152More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British Army service personnel (a) live and (b) work in Northern Ireland.
Answer: The below table shows the number of UK Regular personnel stationed in Northern Ireland by Service as at 1 July 2024. ServiceTotalRoyal Navy/Royal Marines5Army1,230RAF70 The figures provided are based on Service personnel's stationed location and not their...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTrader Support ServiceTreasuryTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3935More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she took to raise awareness of the opportunity to tender for the provision of what became the Trader Support Service.
Answer: In July 2020, HMRC advertised the opportunity to tender for the current Trader Support Service (TSS) on the government tender notice portal, Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), which has now been replaced by Find a Tender. Prior to the tender being published,...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordWindsor Framework (Retail Movement Scheme: Plant and Animal Health (Amendment etc) RegulationsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3934More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which business organisations his Department had discussions with in (a) England, (b) Wales and (c) Scotland on the Windsor Framework (Retail Movement Scheme: Plant and Animal Health (A
Answer: Departmental officials engaged with businesses operating in Great Britain and Northern Ireland to ensure that Northern Ireland consumers have access to the same products as consumers in Great Britain whilst formulating this policy. Trade bodies representi...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordUK Internal Trade: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3933More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which body is responsible for taking customs duties that are required on goods moved in the red lane from Great Britain to Northern Ireland on arrival in Northern Ireland.
Answer: HMRC, as the UK’s customs authority, is responsible for collecting customs duties, where applicable, for goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland that are ‘at risk’ of entering the EU.
Answered 5 Sept 2024
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