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1679507

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	River Tame: Pollution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many pollutant discharges have been reported to the Environment Agency for (a) Wilson Brook and (b) Johnson Brooke, Hyde in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	7861
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2024 answer text <p>In the last five years: one pollution incident in the Wilson Brook has been reported to the Environment Agency (2022) and one pollution incident in the Johnson Brook has been reported (2020).</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 14/02/2024 14:49:48 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1679508

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	River Tame: Pollution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many physical investigations the Environment Agency has made into pollutant discharges at (a) Wilson Brook and (b) Johnson Brooke, Hyde in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	7862
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2024 answer text <p>The Environment Agency has physically attended six instances of reported pollution on the Godley Brook and unnamed tributaries. The Environment Agency worked with United Utilities and Local Authority Environmental Health Departments who attended a further six incidents and shared the information they gathered to further enquiries.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 14/02/2024 15:07:36 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1679509

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	River Tame: Pollution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any (a) warnings, (b) fines or (c) prosecutions have been issued for pollutant discharges at (i) Wilson Brook and (ii) Johnson Brooke, Hyde in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	7863
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2024 answer text <p>Including the Godley Brook and its two unnamed tributaries (which feed the Wilson Brook and flow through Hyde Park) there have been five warning letters issued in the last five years (2021 x2, 2022, 2023 x2) and no prosecutions or fines.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 14/02/2024 15:03:44 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1679514

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	River Tame: Pollution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the water quality in the River Tame between Johnson Brook and Wilson Brook.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	7868
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The section of the River Tame between Johnson Brook and Wilson Brook comprises designated waterbodies River Tame – Swineshaw Brook to Mersey (GB112069061112) and Wilson Brook (GB112069061280). Johnson Brook is not a waterbody in its own right but forms part of GB112069061112. These water bodies were assessed for water quality classification by the Environment Agency (EA) in 2021/22. The next classifications are expected next year. Details of the current assessment of these water bodies can be found on the EA’s Catchment Data Explorer: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenvironment.data.gov.uk%2Fcatchment-planning%2FWaterBody%2FGB112069061112&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C5fdb4c0978b146b338b108dc129f99c2%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638405723889821547%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ly6Or9ZJqlkqSM85hbKTS7BxAkHQaqc%2F0obiwfvwp4o%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">GB112069061112</a> and <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenvironment.data.gov.uk%2Fcatchment-planning%2FWaterBody%2FGB112069061280&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C5fdb4c0978b146b338b108dc129f99c2%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638405723889821547%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=W0Xxcx35vbVVGl1VyF%2FhGuy1Raao%2B85EcwklkTKYQtc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">GB112069061280</a>.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 16/01/2024 15:56:23 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

722145

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2017
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many staff in his Department respond to Freedom of Information requests.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	71049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>FOI requests may be responded to by any member of staff across the Department, as they are allocated to the most appropriate person to respond depending on the subject of the request.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 26/04/2017 09:54:53 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

711522

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the average response rate was of his Department to individual Freedom of Information requests in each month since July 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	68051
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>The latest Freedom of Information statistics were published in December 2016 and are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/freedom-of-information-statistics-july-to-september-2016--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/freedom-of-information-statistics-july-to-september-2016--2</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 21/03/2017 15:48:05 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

688054

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2017
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) cost, (b) take up and (c) effectiveness in reducing fraud of the electoral identity card. in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	63957
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>The requirement to produce photographic identification before voting in Northern Ireland is well established and has enhanced confidence in the integrity of the electoral system. There were 82,812 new additions to the register in the 2015/16 financial year and 24,232 electoral identity cards issued, covering new applications and replacements. The cost of the electoral identity card in Northern Ireland in 2015/2016 was £25,500. Northern Ireland does not hold an annual canvass and its electorate, at 1.2 million, is less than 3% of that of the United Kingdom as a whole.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 23/02/2017 12:57:13 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

226233

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Councillors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with local government representatives on altering section 7 (2) and (3) of the Local Government Act 1972 relating to elections in metropolitan districts.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	226910
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>Whilst we have had no such discussions about these provisions in the Local Government Act 1972, which provide for metropolitan district councils to elect a third of the council in each of 3 years out of 4, my officials have had discussions or consultations with the councils of Birmingham and Rotherham about changing the pattern of their elections to the whole of the council being elected every four years.</p><p> </p><p>I have laid the necessary statutory orders to move Birmingham to whole council elections from May 2018 and I intend shortly to lay the order to move Rotherham to whole council elections from May 2016.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 18/03/2015 15:14:25 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

225613

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Health Services: Greater Manchester
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what analysis of financial risk to Greater Manchester councils has been made during the Manchester NHS devolution negotiations.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	226621
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>The devolution deal is about greater integration of the money spent locally on health and social care across the city by local authorities and health bodies. It does not affect the allocation of funding to councils in Greater Manchester. Greater integration and joint working has the potential to reduce costs and improve outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 11/03/2015 15:15:03 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

225615

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Mayors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to bring forward proposals to introduce metro mayors in metropolitan counties other than Greater Manchester.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	226623
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The <em>Government’s response to the Heseltine review</em> (Cm 8587, March 2013) stated that the Government would support local authorities that wish to create a combined authority or implement other forms of collaboration (for example, shared management), and would also support local authorities that wished to have a directly-elected conurbation mayor.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is open to discuss proposals from any areas on the scope to further decentralise in England, where there is both strong governance and the capacity and capability to deliver on driving economic growth. A directly-elected mayor may be one element of such a case. There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution.</p><p> </p><p>The recent command paper, <em>Implications of devolution for England</em> (Cm 8969, December 2014) also sets the views of both Coalition parties on decentralisation in England.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/implications-of-devolution-for-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/implications-of-devolution-for-england</a></p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 16/03/2015 18:13:23 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne