Steve Darling MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Water: StandardsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2585More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure water quality monitoring data is published all year round.
Answer: The Environment Act places monitoring duties on the water industry to improve transparency and reduce harm from sewage discharges. As outlined in Section 82, the Continuous Water Quality Monitoring programme will require water companies to continuously me...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: South WestCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2584More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to relocate Government (a) departments and (b) agencies to the South West.
Answer: The government is committed to ensuring that the Civil Service workforce operates across the country, including in the South West, to improve policy making and outcomes for UK citizens.
Answered 6 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSwimming: Coastal AreasDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2583More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to help improve the quality of bathing water around Britain's shores.
Answer: During the bathing water season, the Environment Agency (EA) will carry out a sampling programme at the 451 designated bathing water sites in England to provide robust monitoring of water quality. The EA will also have action plans with clear objectives f...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordMayors: South WestMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2582More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of public support for an elected Mayor in the South West peninsula.
Answer: The Government wants more areas to benefit from devolution settlements, with new powers that will allow them to play a leading role in delivering growth and bring economic benefit to communities. This is why we are encouraging local authorities to advance...
Answered 6 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordRailways: DevonDepartment for TransportTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2581More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress she has made on (a) rail and (b) station improvements in (i) Torbay and (ii) Devon.
Answer: The Chancellor set out on 29 July a range of pressures on public spending, including £2.9 billion of unfunded transport specific spending. Following this, the Secretary of State’s Written Ministerial Statement on 30 July set out that the Department is und...
Answered 4 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSummertimeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2580More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment as part of his next spending review of the potential economic merits of double British Summer time.
Answer: The Government has no current plans to change the approach to Daylight Savings.
Answered 2 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: DevonDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2579More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) private school pupils in (i) Devon, (ii) Torbay and (iii) Plymouth who will transfer into the state sector in this and each of the next five years and (b) surplus
Answer: This government is committed to ending the VAT exemption that private schools enjoy. The impact of this policy is being fully considered. As part of this process, the department is sharing sector insights, including input from school leadership, student p...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPolice and Crime CommissionersHome OfficeTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2578More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce legislation to (a) abolish the post of Police and Crime Commissioners and (b) replace them with local boards of elected councillors.
Answer: PCCs play an importantrole as the voice of the public and victims in policing at a local level, holding Chief Constables to account and leading local partnerships to prevent crime and anti-social behaviour.The government will continue to work with PCCs an...
Answered 2 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPolice and Crime Commissioners: RecruitmentHome OfficeTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2577More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to abolish the recruitment of deputy Police and Crime Commissioners.
Answer: The arrangements enabling a Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) to appoint a deputy and the functions a deputy can exercise, are set out within the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.Before appointing a deputy, a PCC must notify the local Po...
Answered 2 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPolice and Crime Commissioners: RecruitmentHome OfficeTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2576More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to take steps to increase transparency around the recruitment of Deputy Police and Crime Commissioners.
Answer: The arrangements enabling a Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) to appoint a deputy and the functions a deputy can exercise, are set out within the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.Before appointing a deputy, a PCC must notify the local Po...
Answered 2 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPolice and Crime Commissioners: RecruitmentHome OfficeTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2575More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department provides on rules governing the recruitment of Deputy Police and Crime Commissioners.
Answer: The arrangements enabling a Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) to appoint a deputy and the functions a deputy can exercise, are set out within the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.Before appointing a deputy, a PCC must notify the local Po...
Answered 2 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordFamily Hubs: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2574More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to continue funding (a) family hubs and (b) the Start for Life programme.
Answer: The Government has a bold new ambition to raise the healthiest generation of children in our history. There is strong evidence that the critical 1,001 days from conception to the age of two years old sets the foundations for later cognitive, emotional, an...
Answered 2 Sept 2024
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