Shaun Davies MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Ministry of Defence: LandMinistry of DefenceTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6696More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to issue any licences for fox trail hunting on Ministry of Defence land.
Answer: This Government was elected on a mandate to introduce the most ambitious plans to improve animal welfare in a generation, including the banning of trail hunting. Licenses to trail hunt on Ministry of Defence (MOD) land are currently under Ministerial revi...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: River SevernDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6695More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent progress his Department has made with the River Severn Partnership on (a) reducing flooding and (b) protecting (i) homes and (ii) businesses from flood risk.
Answer: The Environment Agency is working with partners in the River Severn Partnership (RSP) including local authorities, water companies, Natural Resources Wales (NRW), Natural England and environmental organisations on a long-term, whole-catchment scale view o...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordM54: M6Department for TransportTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6694More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her planned timetable is for funding the (a) M54 and (b) M6 North link road.
Answer: A review of the Department’s capital spend portfolio has been commissioned, this will inform the Department’s new long-term strategy for transport, developing a modern and integrated network with people at its heart and ensuring that transport infrastruct...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCrown Prosecution ServiceAttorney GeneralTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6693More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, how many cases are awaiting charging decisions by the Crown Prosecution Service for (a) summary only, (b) either way and (c) indictable only offences.
Answer: Management information is held showing the number of cases with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which are awaiting a pre-charge decision.The overall number of cases which were awaiting a charging decision or administrative triage (completed on files s...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordUnemployment: Young PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6692More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with (a) Metro Mayors and (b) local authorities on tackling youth unemployment.
Answer: Our plan to get Britain Working includes a new Youth Guarantee for all young people aged 18-21 to ensure that they can access quality training opportunities, an apprenticeship or employment support. This will sit alongside; a new national jobs and careers...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordEnergy: PricesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6691More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help households reduce energy bills.
Answer: The Government believes the only way to protect billpayers permanently is to speed up the transition towards homegrown clean energy and remove our dependence on volatile international fossil fuel markets. Whilst we transition to clean power by 2030, we wi...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSaudi Arabia: UN Human Rights CouncilForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6690More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of Saudi Arabia's bid for election to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Answer: The UK does not disclose voting positions on multilateral elections.
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: River SevernDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4456More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent progress his Department had made with the River Severn Partnership on (a) reducing flooding and (b) protecting homes and businesses from flood risk.
Answer: The Environment Agency is working with partners in the River Severn Partnership (RSP) including local authorities, water companies, Natural Resources Wales, Natural England and environmental organisations on a long-term, whole-catchment scale view of plan...
Answered 13 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCrown Prosecution ServiceAttorney GeneralTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4455More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, if she will publish the number of cases awaiting charging decisions by the Crown Prosecution Service, broken down by (a) whether they are (i) summary only, (ii) either way and (iii) indictable only offences and (b) by Crown P
Answer: Management information is held showing the number of cases with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which are awaiting a pre-charge decision.The table below shows the overall number of cases which were awaiting a charging decision or administrative triage...
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordRecovery of CostsMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3847More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to allow Courts to impose cost orders on those who (a) plead and (b) are found guilty in order to recover the costs of (i) investigating the offence, (ii) bringing the case to Court and (iii) le
Answer: Courts have wide ranging powers to impose cost orders on defendants and to recover some of the costs of investigating the offence and bringing the case to court. All such orders are at the discretion of the court, ensuring that they are just and reasonabl...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping: Fixed PenaltiesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3846More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will provide councils with powers to recover the full cost of (a) investigations, (b) prosecutions, (c) clean up and (d) prevention of fly tipping when issuing fixed penalty noti
Answer: Local authorities can issue fixed penalty notices of up to £1,000 to fly-tippers. The income from these fixed penalty notices must be spent on enforcement and clean-up specifically. The department has not yet made an assessment of this policy, which was i...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3845More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what weighting (a) his Department and (b) the Environment Agency give to world heritage site status when determining funding for flood defences.
Answer: The impacts of coastal erosion and flooding on heritage assets are included in the economic impacts assessment for flood and coastal erosion schemes. Last year, the Environment Agency published the Environment and Historic Environment Outcomes Valuation G...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many proposed homes have received planning permission to be built but have not been built after (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four, (e) five and (f) six years or more.
Answer: Estimates of how many homes received planning permission in each year are published by the department as part of its quarterly statistics on Planning Applications in England and can be found here: Planning applications statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).We ...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordMagistrates' Courts: TelfordMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3843More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many sitting days Telford Magistrates Court rooms were not used (a) at all and (b) in part in each of the last three years.
Answer: HMCTS records the availability of courtroom in ‘sessions’. A ‘session’ represents the time that court/hearing room space is available, with up to two sessions available each day. Available and unavailable sessions are recorded for all jurisdictions.Telfor...
Answered 11 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTrials: TelfordMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3842More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time is for a trial to be heard at Telford Magistrates' Court.
Answer: We do not publish a ‘waiting time’ measure for Magistrates’ courts. The Magistrates’ courts timeliness tool contains published estimates of timeliness from offence to case completion at the Magistrates’ courts. It is available down to Local Criminal Justi...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTrials: ShrewsburyMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3841More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time is for a trial at Shrewsbury Crown Court.
Answer: We have interpreted waiting time to refer to the time between the date of sending a case to the Crown Court and the start of the substantive “main” Crown Court hearing.The average (median) waiting time at Shrewsbury Crown Court in 2023 was 42 days, compar...
Answered 11 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHospices: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3322More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure the long-term (a) funding and (b) sustainability of hospices.
Answer: Palliative care services are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission. This promotes a more consistent national approach and supports commissioners in prioritising palliative and end of life care. To support ICBs in ...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordUK Infrastructure BankTreasuryTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3321More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which schemes the UK Infrastructure Bank has (a) accepted and (b) declined, by local authority area; and how much and what proportion of infrastructure finance available to the bank remained as of 4 July 2024.
Answer: The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) sets out financial information in their Annual Reports and Accounts, which are published on their website at https://www.ukib.org.uk/publications and provided to the house on a yearly basis. Further UKIB provides factshee...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPublic Works Loan BoardTreasuryTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3320More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing the onward interest charge of the Public Works Loan Board to local councils on (a) housing growth, (b) economic growth, (c) job creation and (d) loc
Answer: The PWLB lending facility exists to provide cost effective loans to local authorities to support investment and service delivery. HM Treasury keeps the interest rates of PWLB loans under review to ensure that PWLB lending remains supportive of prudent inv...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCombined AuthoritiesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what powers combined authorities have to expand; what criteria they need to fulfil to expand; what consent from other public bodies will be required for expansion; and what the t
Answer: The process for combined authority expansion is set out in the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009. A combined authority must apply to the Secretary of State regarding their proposal to expand. There must be a public consultati...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordMatthew WebbDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3318More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Captain Matthew Webb swimming the English Channel.
Answer: As the first person recorded to swim unaided across the Channel, Captain Matthew Webb’s achievement has no doubt inspired many people to undertake record breaking challenges of endurance. My department is not planning to commemorate the anniversary. Parli...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordWorld Heritage Sites: Ironbridge GorgeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3317More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support her Department is providing to (a) Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and (b) the wider World Heritage Site in Ironbridge Gorge.
Answer: Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is a National Portfolio Organisation funded by Arts Council England, and receives £749,709 annually.In 2022 Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust (IGMT) also received £9.975m from Cultural Assets Fund as part of DCMS Culture Recovery...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordEducation: TelfordDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3316More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's population assumption is for Telford for (a) pre school, (b) primary school, (c) secondary and (d) SEND provision in each academic year from 2020-21 to 2025-26.
Answer: The department collects and publishes forecasts made by local authorities of demand for primary and secondary pupil places from the annual School Capacity (SCAP) survey, which are available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-st...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: ShropshireDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3315More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Environment Agency is taking to help prevent flooding in Ironbridge Gorge; and what investment his Department is providing to protect (a) businesses and (b) properties f
Answer: Protecting communities around the country from flooding and coastal erosion is one of the new Secretary of State’s five core priorities. This Government will improve resilience and preparation across central Government, local authorities, local communitie...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Data ProtectionDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3314More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to share data for free with local councils on (a) Universal Credit, (b) unemployment benefits, (c) young people who are out of work and (d) benefit fraud.
Answer: DWP share personal data with local authorities. That includes three shares of Universal Credit data, with improvements to two of these due in the next 6 months, and an additional Universal Credit data share currently being explored. Similarly, DWP share i...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
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