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1735154

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date	17/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Parking: Pedestrian Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to take steps to (a) allow local authorities with civil parking enforcement powers to enforce against unnecessary obstruction of the pavement and (b) enable highways authorities outside London to introduce a pavement parking prohibition.
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	9764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>In 2020, the Department undertook a public consultation on options for changing the way pavement parking is managed outside London. We are considering the views received to inform the Government’s next steps for pavement parking policy.</p><p> </p><p>The formal consultation response will be available to view in due course at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/managing-pavement-parking" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/consultations/managing-pavement-parking</a>.</p><p><em> </em></p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 21/10/2024 10:26:12 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1735260

registered interest
date	17/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Works: Public Consultation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to publish the outcome of her Department's consultation entitled Street works: fines and lane rental surplus funds’ consultation, published on 15 January 2024.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Andy MacNae
uin	9838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>The Department plans to publish the Government’s response to the consultation in due course.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 21/10/2024 08:37:36 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	5134

1734676

registered interest
date	16/10/2024
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	Flood Control: Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
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 potential merits of increasing levels of funding to help (a) support residents who experienced flooding during Storm Babet in 2023 and (b) mitigate against the risk of flooding in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich constituency.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Patrick Spencer
uin	9551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>Following Storm Babet, the Flood Recovery Framework was activated by the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government. Alongside this, the Property Flood Resilience Grant Scheme was activated by Defra.</p><p> </p><p>A post activation review of the Flood Recovery Framework is underway and we expect this to report later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Protecting communities from flooding is a key priority for this Government. The Government is determined to turbocharge the delivery and repair of flood defences, improve drainage systems and develop natural flood management schemes. We are investing over £1.25 billion this year to scale up national resilience through building new and improving existing flood defences. In the current floods investment programme, there are over 150 property flood resilience schemes planned, which will better protect over 4,000 homes.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is reviewing the investment programme to get it back on track after the pace slowed due to the impacts of inflation and delays with the supply chain. Decisions on future spending will be made at the spending review later this month.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice answering member printed Emma Hardy question first answered 21/10/2024 16:15:33 answering member 4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy
tabling member	5303

1734677

registered interest
date	16/10/2024
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	Flood Control: Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support flood defence and preparedness works in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Patrick Spencer
uin	9552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) serves as a Category 1 responder, offering flood warning services and managing various flood management projects. Post-2023 floods, Suffolk’s flood warning areas were refined for enhanced accuracy, with changes effective from November. The EA partners with local groups to boost community resilience and planning.</p><p> </p><p>Hydraulic modelling studies by the EA, due for completion in Spring/Summer 2025, will ensure maintenance activities remain suitable for Framlingham, Wickham Market, Debenham, and Needham Market. Needham Market’s ongoing Property Flood Resilience (PFR) projects involve 24 properties, with installations set for January 2025, and 43 additional properties surveyed in October 2024 for winter 2025 installations.</p><p> </p><p>Feasibility studies for flood risk interventions in Framlingham and Wickham Market will start in Spring 2025. The Alde &amp; Ore flood risk model updates are planned for FY 27/28, pending funding. Suffolk County Council oversees a £5,000 Flood Recovery Framework grant, with 127 applications received and 39 fully paid. The EA operates Rattlesdon and Gipping reservoirs, aiding downstream communities, and continues to engage with landowners for Natural Flood Management opportunities.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice answering member printed Emma Hardy question first answered 21/10/2024 11:50:55 answering member 4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy
tabling member	5303

1734678

registered interest
date	16/10/2024
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	Flood Control
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 have discussions with the Environment Agency on clarifying its position relating to the ability of landowners to maintain stretches of waterway on their land to help reduce flooding.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Patrick Spencer
uin	9553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>The Environment Agency has proactively engaged riparian landowners setting out responsibilities, where there might be exemptions and how they can get help. This has already reached several communities affected in Storm Babet – in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich constituency the letter has been sent to:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Framlingham</li><li>Debenham</li><li>Needham Market</li><li>Wickham Market</li><li>Charsfield</li><li>Parham</li><li>Framsden</li><li>Hacheston</li><li>Somersham</li><li>Great Bealings</li></ol> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice answering member printed Emma Hardy question first answered 21/10/2024 12:04:27 answering member 4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy
tabling member	5303

1734679

registered interest
date	16/10/2024
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	Flood Control
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 take steps to support for landowners to maintain stretches of waterways on their land to help mitigate future flooding risk.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Patrick Spencer
uin	9554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>All farmers and land managers are encouraged to manage the land in a way that supports and enhances the environment while reducing impacts on others, such as climate risks.</p><p> </p><p>Where there is a watercourse, riparian landowners are required under common law to keep watercourses clear of anything which could cause an obstruction to the flow of water on their land, or downstream if washed away. This includes maintenance of the bed and banks, as well as any trees or shrubs growing on the banks. They must also ensure that any structures such as culverts, trash screens and mill gates are cleared of debris and allow the flow of water.</p><p> </p><p>The new Environmental Land Management schemes aim to help the environment while supporting farming and food production. These will include support for farmers and land managers to adopt Natural Flood Management approaches in a way that reduces flooding and coastal erosion risks to local communities.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice answering member printed Emma Hardy question first answered 21/10/2024 16:10:50 answering member 4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy
tabling member	5303

1734681

registered interest
date	16/10/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Winter Fuel Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential health impacts of means-testing the winter fuel payment.
tabling member constituency	South Shropshire
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	9556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>No such discussions took place.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to a preventative approach to public health. Keeping people warm and well at home and improving the quality of new and existing homes will play an essential part in enabling people to live longer, healthier lives and reducing pressures on the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Health Security Agency publishes the Adverse Weather and Health Plan for England, which sets out a framework for action to protect the population from harm to their health from adverse weather including excess cold and outlines the health risks of cold homes.</p><p> </p><p>Each year the NHS makes robust plans for expected winter pressures. It is important that NHS trusts and local authorities take a joined-up approach to winter planning across the health and care system. NHS England and DHSC wrote to local authorities and NHS trusts on 16 September to set out a national approach to 2024/25 winter planning, and the key steps to be taken to support the delivery of high-quality care for patients this winter.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds question first answered 21/10/2024 14:11:46 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1734683

registered interest
date	16/10/2024
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024, what progress his Department has made on setting out how public authorities should have special regard to Northern Ireland's place in the UK's internal market.
tabling member constituency	Brentwood and Ongar
tabling member printed	Alex Burghart
uin	9528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>Consistent with the commitments made in <em>Safeguarding the Union</em>, the Government published statutory guidance to public authorities on upholding their legal duties to have special regard to the UK internal market on 30 September.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Leeds South answering member printed Hilary Benn question first answered 21/10/2024 11:36:19 answering member 413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn
tabling member	4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart

1734691

registered interest
date	16/10/2024
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 8157 on Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of removing consular status from the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in the context of Hong Kong no longer being an independent territory.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	9466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 provides the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office with certain privileges and immunities in line with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations for the purposes of furthering economic and trade interests. There are no current plans to replace this legislation.</p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Friern Barnet answering member printed Catherine West question first answered 21/10/2024 10:13:06 answering member 4523 label Biography information for Catherine West
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1734694

registered interest
date	16/10/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to provide (a) healthcare and (b) financial support to people whose applications to the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme were rejected on the basis that they do not have a severe disablement that exceeds the 60% threshold.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	9409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>We expect that individuals whose claims to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) have been rejected on the basis that they do not meet the 60% disability threshold would receive the same level of treatment and care from the National Health Service as those with any other long-term condition requiring support.</p><p>The VDPS is not a compensation scheme. It does not prejudice the right of the disabled person to pursue a claim for damages through the courts. Other Government support remains open to claimants with a disability or long-term health condition, including Statutory Sick Pay, Universal Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, Attendance Allowance, and Personal Independence Payments.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 21/10/2024 15:23:16 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope