Tim Farron MP: written questions
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Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45555More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2025 to Question 39816 on Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control, which road links within 10 miles of Heathrow Airport are expected to exceed the nitrog
Answer: The most recent national compliance assessment for 2023 did not report any road links within 10 miles of Heathrow Airport to be in exceedance of the annual mean limit value for nitrogen dioxide. Local monitoring as part of the Local Air Quality Management...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNitrogen Dioxide: Pollution ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45554More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2025 to Question 39816 on Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control, which road links within 10 miles of Gatwick airport are expected to exceed the nitroge
Answer: The most recent national compliance assessment for 2023 did not report any road links within 10 miles of Gatwick Airport to be in exceedance of the annual mean limit value for nitrogen dioxide. There were also no exceedances reported through the Local Air...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNitrogen Dioxide: Pollution ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45553More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2025 to Question 39816 on Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control, which localised hotspot is expected to delay compliance with the nitrogen dioxide limi
Answer: The localised hotspot in Newcastle-upon-Tyne is located on Stephenson Road A1058. The high nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations observed here are due to several local factors including high traffic volumes, queuing traffic, an incline in the road that re...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNitrogen Dioxide: Pollution ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45552More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2025 to Question 39816 on Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control, whether he has held discussions with the Office for Environmental Protection on the ti
Answer: There have been no discussions with the Office for Environmental Protection on this topic.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNitrogen Dioxide: Pollution ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45551More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2025 to Question 39816 on Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control, whether his answer is consistent with the 2023 National Compliance Assessment.
Answer: The answer to Question 39816 was based on a combination of data from the 2023 national compliance assessment and additional local monitoring data that does not typically meet the requirements for formal national reporting but was included in the response ...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal, Social, Health and Economic EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45550More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress she has made on implementing (a) the draft RSHE curriculum and (b) the suicide prevention content in that curriculum.
Answer: The government is clear that children’s wellbeing must be at the heart of statutory guidance on teaching relationships, sex and health education and, as such, the department is looking carefully at responses to the public consultation conducted last year,...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMetropolitan Police: Police RaidsHome OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45549More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with the Metropolitan Police on arrests made in a Quaker meeting house in March 2025.
Answer: The police are operationally independent of the government and make decisions on specific incidents based on their intelligence and judgment. The Home Office does not have the power to direct them to make any operational decisions. However, the Home Secre...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPackaging: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45548More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to support brewers meet the costs of the Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging scheme.
Answer: The government has worked closely with industry, including the brewing and hospitality sectors, throughout development of Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR). This is a major reform that will be iterated over several years to incentivise...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: ExpenditureDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45547More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will provide the 2024-25 spend figures to date for the Farming and Countryside Programme to match the categories set out in Annex 1 of the Farming and Countryside Programme annua
Answer: The farming blog published on Wednesday 12 March set out Defra’s spend for 24/25 and 25/26 split across the Farming and Countryside Programme schemes. Defra manages the farming budget flexibly to respond to demand, and achieve our intended outcomes for fa...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Carbon EmissionsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what financial support he is providing to low carbon farming.
Answer: Our Environmental Land Management schemes (ELMs), funded by a farming budget of £5 billion over two years, are paying farmers to take up land management practices that contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Government has also spent £51.8 mi...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCarbon EmissionsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44423More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the emissions reductions required in (a) agriculture, (b) land use and (c) waste to deliver the sixth carbon budget.
Answer: The extent of emissions reductions required by Defra sectors in order to deliver the Government’s overall Carbon Budgets is determined by a cross-Government decision making process led by DESNZ. Underpinning this is the UKTM (UK Times Model). This takes a...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 4 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44212More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of local authorities providing housing for people seeking asylum.
Answer: The Home Office is working closely with a range of stakeholders to fulfil its statutory obligations, while reducing the overall cost of asylum accommodation for the taxpayer.A more proactive approach is being taken, placing greater emphasis on collaborati...
Answered 14 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 4 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44211More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support local authorities to provide housing for people seeking asylum.
Answer: The Home Office is working closely with a range of stakeholders to fulfil its statutory obligations, while reducing the overall cost of asylum accommodation for the taxpayer.A more proactive approach is being taken, placing greater emphasis on collaborati...
Answered 14 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43435More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish all correspondence between the NHS, his Department and Ministers on AI auto contouring funding in 2024.
Answer: The Department does not plan to publish correspondence between the National Health Service and Ministers on this topic from 2024.
Answered 14 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43434More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason the NHS was preparing for AI auto contouring funding in September 2024; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of not providing this funding on planning by radiothe
Answer: We are committed to transforming diagnostic services, and will support the National Health Service to increase capacity to meet the demand for diagnostic services through investment in new capacity, including magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomogr...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43433More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS was instructed to proceed with engagement on AI auto contouring funding in 2024 following the previous Government's funding announcement.
Answer: We are committed to transforming diagnostic services, and will support the National Health Service to increase capacity to meet the demand for diagnostic services through investment in new capacity, including magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomogr...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43432More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the webinars held by NHS England with hospital staff on AI auto contouring funding in September 2024 on staff expectations for that technolo
Answer: The information requested is not held by the Department, but we are seeking advice from NHS England on the impact of these webinars and subsequent engagement that they have undertaken.All future spending commitments beyond 2025/26, including this one, wil...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRadiotherapy: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43431More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) webinars, (b) meetings and (c) other engagements NHS England undertook with radiotherapy networks on access to the AI auto contouring funding announced on 21 May 2024; and whether alternat
Answer: The information requested is not held by the Department, but we are seeking advice from NHS England on the impact of these webinars and subsequent engagement that they have undertaken.All future spending commitments beyond 2025/26, including this one, wil...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRadiotherapy: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43430More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the withdrawal of AI auto contouring funding on NHS waiting times for radiotherapy treatment.
Answer: We are committed to transforming diagnostic services, and will support the National Health Service to increase capacity to meet the demand for diagnostic services through investment in new capacity, including magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomogr...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: Human RightsHome OfficeTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43030More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were granted leave to enter (a) on the basis of family life as a (i) partner and (ii) parent and (b) due to exceptional circumstances in compliance with Article 8 of the European Conve
Answer: The requested data is not available from published statistics, and could only be collated and verified for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNitrogen Dioxide: Pollution ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41413More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether there have been any formal complaints to the Office for Environmental Protection on exceedances of the nitrogen dioxide annual limit value in the UK.
Answer: As an independent public body set up to hold public authorities to account, the OEP does not routinely share information regarding specific complaints with Defra unless those complaints relate directly to Defra and are considered eligible by the OEP. To d...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNitrogen Dioxide: Pollution ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41412More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether concentrations of nitrogen dioxide are allowed to exceed the annual mean limit value once achieved throughout a zone or agglomeration.
Answer: Under the Air Quality Standards Regulations (2010), there is a requirement to meet annual mean limit values for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) of 40μg/m3. This is an ongoing requirement and does not expire once the limit value has been met in a single reporting y...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAir PollutionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41411More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce concentrations for pollutants in ambient air once the relevant limit value has been achieved.
Answer: Under the Air Quality Standards Regulations 2010 where levels of pollutants are below the set limit values, they must continue to be maintained. We have also set a Population Exposure Reduction Target for PM2.5, which will continue to reduce peoples’ aver...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAir PollutionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41410More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of (a) limit values, (b) objectives and (c) targets to control concentrations of pollutants in ambient air in England.
Answer: Limit values, national objectives and long-term targets complement each other and are all recognised as necessary in delivering cleaner air.
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAir PollutionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41409More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where the limit values set in the Air Quality Standards Regulations 2016 to control concentrations of particulate matter (PM10) in ambient air apply.
Answer: The limit values set in the Air Quality Standards Regulations (2010) to control concentrations of particulate matter (PM10) in ambient air apply across the UK. Compliance with the limit values is assessed through a combination of monitored and modelled da...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
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