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1697497

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date	20/03/2024
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	Landfill: Safety
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 the Environment Agency has made a recent assessment of the safety of historic landfill sites that are in close proximity to urban areas.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	19663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>Local Authorities have the statutory duty to inspect their Areas to identify contaminated land (including historic landfills and non-permitted sites) in accordance with a written inspection strategy which they must publish and maintain.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency has responsibility to require those responsible to remediate historic landfills and non-permitted sites if they have been determined as contaminated land and designated as a ‘special site’ by the local authority under Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2000, 54 sites have been designated as special sites including 13 historic landfills <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.data.gov.uk%2Fdataset%2Fe3770885-fc05-4813-9e60-42b03ec411cf%2Fcontaminated-land-special-sites&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C54992b60b7134e38dfb508dc4a809abc%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638467163410647727%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Qslv7CQHLKI6p0%2BvvXg4Xg%2FzpwVaPz71zRcu3stJrgk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Contaminated Land Special Sites - data.gov.uk</a></p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 26/03/2024 14:52:37 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1471146

registered interest
date	16/06/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions and Revenue and Customs: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) budgets and (b) returns were from the compliance units of (a) HMRC and (b) the Department for Work and Pensions for each year between 2015 and 2021 inclusive.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	19663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>For HMRC, the value of compliance work goes beyond generating yield, and also includes mitigating harm, ensuring a level playing field for those who pay their taxes correctly, and deterring non-compliance from taking place.</p><p> </p><p>In this context, there are some indicative figures HMRC can provide to give a sense of scale. In the financial year 2020-21, HMRC delivered a total of £30.4 billion of compliance yield with an expenditure of £1,166.5 million on the Customer Compliance Group (CCG). CCG brings in the majority, but not all, compliance yield. Equivalent figures for CCG from 2016-17 (the first year of CCG reporting following an internal reorganisation) are provided in the table below. Equivalent figures for before 2016-17 are not readily available and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Compliance yield (£billion)</p></td><td><p>Cost (£million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£28.9</p></td><td><p>£1,040.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£30.3</p></td><td><p>£1,139.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£34.1</p></td><td><p>£1,127.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£36.9</p></td><td><p>£1,192.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>£30.4</p></td><td><p>£1,166.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The information requested on the Department for Work and Pensions Compliance is not readily available and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/06/2022 16:24:11 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1338562

registered interest
date	21/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Fracking: Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many extant planning permissions there are which permit the construction of fracking sites.
tabling member constituency	North East Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Lee Rowley
uin	19663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2021 answer text <p>The Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government does not collect data at this level of detail. We do collect statistics on applications for oil and gas development but without distinguishing the method (such as hydraulic fracturing) by which the oil or gas is extracted from the ground. The data is publicly available and can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Flive-tables-on-planning-application-statistics&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7Cd421883dc39e4a34ce2708d93a34e2d3%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637604821072776956%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=0%2BFzPPK%2FBKz7WOfQFOjG3TEEbqLiALG54ygOl6Fy6uQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 29/06/2021 14:33:17 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley

437186

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of the Government's immigration policies on the number of international students enrolling in UK universities.
tabling member constituency	Dumfries and Galloway
tabling member printed	Richard Arkless
uin	19663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>We have an excellent offer for international students who wish to study at our world-leading institutions and there remains no limit on the number who can do so. As a result, the UK remains the second most popular destination in the world for international higher education students, and our excellent universities continue to attract large volumes of overseas students.</p><p>Annual visa applications from international students to study at British universities are now 17 per cent higher than they were in 2010, with visa applications to our elite Russell Group universities up by 39 per cent since 2010.</p><p>The most recent figures produced by the Higher Education Statistics Agency also show a 6 per cent increase in the number of full-time non-EU new enrolments to UK higher education institutions between 2012/13 and 2013/14.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 16/12/2015 17:43:35 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4387 label Biography information for Richard Arkless