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984376

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
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	Landscapes Review
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 discussions he had with Julian Glover on drawing up the terms of reference of the Designated landscapes (national parks and AONBs): 2018 review.
tabling member constituency	Bridgwater and West Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger
uin	177197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>Prior to the launch of the review of designated landscapes the Secretary of State met Julian Glover to discuss the objectives for the review which are reflected in the terms of reference.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 16/10/2018 16:15:55 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1396 label Biography information for Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger

984377

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
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	Exmoor
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 he has made an assessment of the Exmoor Vision as a way of expanding the National Park; and whether residents in Somerset and Devon currently outwith the National Park will be consulted on the its future.
tabling member constituency	Bridgwater and West Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger
uin	177198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>We are aware of the Exmoor National Park Partnership Plan, which was subject to consultation with the public before its adoption, and ‘Exmoor’s Ambition’, a vision for the future of Exmoor which was developed by the Exmoor National Park Authority and Exmoor Hill Farming Network in consultation with the Exmoor farming community. No assessment of either document has been made as a way of expanding the existing national park boundaries.</p><p> </p><p>The review of designated landscapes, led by Julian Glover, will make recommendations on the case for extension or creation of new designated areas. It will include a call for evidence and more details of this will be announced soon.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 16/10/2018 15:46:19 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1396 label Biography information for Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger

984378

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
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	Exmoor
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 Exmoor National Park Authority has asked for a legal opinion on expanding its present boundaries.
tabling member constituency	Bridgwater and West Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger
uin	177199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The Exmoor National Park Authority has not sought a legal opinion on expanding its present boundaries from Defra. It would be for Exmoor National Park Authority to seek its own legal advice on this matter. Ministers are not aware if it has sought such advice from elsewhere.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 06/11/2018 17:29:56 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1396 label Biography information for Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger

983320

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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	Exmoor
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 discussions his Department has had with Exmoor National Park Authority on expanding the boundaries of the National Park to include the Quantocks and other areas.
tabling member constituency	Bridgwater and West Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger
uin	176016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>Neither Defra nor Natural England, the body with statutory responsibility for national park designation, have held any recent discussions with Exmoor National Park Authority on expanding the boundaries of Exmoor National Park.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 16/10/2018 09:45:12 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1396 label Biography information for Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger

983321

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Exmoor
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has received representations from Exmoor National Park for additional funding to expand the National Park beyond it present boundaries.
tabling member constituency	Bridgwater and West Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger
uin	176017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2018 answer text <p>National Parks represent some of England’s most important landscapes, protecting their exceptional natural beauty and cultural heritage. In 2017/18 they received a total grant allocation of more than £47 million, with Exmoor National Park in receipt of more than £3 million. Officials have searched HM Treasury’s records and advise that HM Treasury has not received representations from Exmoor National Park for additional funding to expand its present boundaries.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 12/10/2018 10:32:50 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1396 label Biography information for Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger

943836

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
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	Somerset County Council
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the agenda was for the meeting between the Minister of State for Local Government and the leader of Somerset County Council in July 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bridgwater and West Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger
uin	165479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The Leader of Somerset County Council, Cllr. Fothergill, accompanied by Cllr Harvey Siggs, Leader of Mendip District Council, Cllr Faye Purbeck, Cabinet member for Education and Council Transformation at Somerset County Council and Patrick Flaherty, Chief Executive of Somerset County Council, met me on 11 July. Cllr. Fothergill arranged this meeting to let me know his and his colleagues’ thoughts about future reorganisation in Somerset, to which I responded by outlining the Government’s position on such unitarisation, which I had set out earlier on 22 May in the Westminster Hall debate on Somerset County Council’s Plans for Unitary Status (Hansard ref Volume 641 Column 335WH).</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 24/07/2018 14:48:39 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1396 label Biography information for Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger

928690

registered interest
date	21/06/2018
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	Agriculture: Subsidies
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 fines the Rural Payments Agency has paid to the EU as a result of (a) mistakes in payments and (b) late payments to farmers in the last five years; and what the value was of those fines.
tabling member constituency	Bridgwater and West Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger
uin	156367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2018 answer text <p>The European Commission (EC) would expect the Rural Payments Agency to make recoveries or top up payments where the initial payment made was found to be inaccurate. These payment adjustments are not subject to EC fines.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, the EC may apply fines, called disallowance, where they consider payments have been made which infringe scheme regulations or control measures. Financial penalties resulted in disallowance across a range of control measures, such as Cross Compliance; and a range of payment schemes disbursed by the RPA; and against payments which the Commission consider late. These are payments made outside of the regulatory payment window, which runs from 1 December to 30 June each year. The total disallowance applied by the commission is reported in the Annual Report and Accounts which are available at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/630164/defra-annual-report-2016-2017-web.pdf" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>. The split between disallowance (not including late payments) and late payment penalties within each published account is:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year per published Account</p></td><td><p>£000 disallowance</p></td><td><p>£000 late payment penalties</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>112,390</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>93,565</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>3,156</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>103,600</p></td><td><p>1,192</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>23,518</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 29/06/2018 13:34:53 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1396 label Biography information for Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger

919922

registered interest
date	08/06/2018
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	Unitary Councils: Somerset
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 meetings Ministers and officials of his Department have had with officials and members of Somerset County Council; and what correspondence his Department has had with Somerset County Council on unitary status in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Bridgwater and West Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger
uin	151403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>Ministers and officials regularly have correspondence and discussions with local authorities about a wide range of issues, which may include reorganisation from a two tier structure to unitary status. Such correspondence has recently included a letter from the Leader of Somerset County Council asking for a meeting to discuss his early thinking on restructuring.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 18/06/2018 14:39:48 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1396 label Biography information for Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger

874794

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
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	Electric Cables: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the current minimum reaction to fire classifications are for cables in (a) hospitals, (b) schools, (c) homes and (d) work places.
tabling member constituency	Bridgwater and West Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger
uin	135095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>The electrical safety of cables in buildings is regulated through the Electricity at Work Regulations for workplaces and through the Building Regulations for dwellings. The industry guidance which supports the Regulations – BS 7671 (known as “The Wiring regulations”) – sets a minimum performance requirement equivalent to the Class E classification of reaction to fire.</p><p>As part of our consideration of the independent review of the Building Regulations and fire safety led by Dame Judith Hackitt, we will review the evidence of risk associated with electrical cabling to consider how we should respond.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 19/04/2018 14:22:13 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1396 label Biography information for Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger

838176

registered interest
date	07/02/2018
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Economic Situation: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment she has made of the strength of the Northern Ireland economy.
tabling member constituency	Bridgwater and West Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger
uin	903764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>The fundamentals of the Northern Ireland economy remain strong. Economic output is up over the year, exports have risen, unemployment has fallen to levels not seen since before the Great Recession of 2008, and 55,000 more people are in work compared to 2010.</p><p> </p><p>Ultimately, though, a key requirement for stronger growth is political stability. That is why it is essential that we see devolution restored.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 07/02/2018 16:33:02 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1396 label Biography information for Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger