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1611382

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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	Slurry Infrastructure Grant
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 estimate her Department has made of the number of slurry stores that will receive funding from successful applications to the first round of the Slurry Infrastructure Grant.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	181010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>Defra has allocated £33.9 million to the first round of the Slurry Infrastructure grants. In March 2023, the Rural Payments Agency invited 374 projects to submit a full application. We plan for most projects to complete the full application process and receive a grant.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 20/04/2023 09:06:14 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1611383

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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	Sewage: 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, what recent assessment her Department has made on whether individual water companies can achieve targets set out the Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	181011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/storm-overflows-discharge-reduction-plan" target="_blank">Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan</a> was launched in August 2022. Water companies are currently preparing their business plans as part of the planning cycle for 2025-2030 (PR24), setting out how they will achieve Government targets over the next five years.</p><p> </p><p>Government is committing to review the targets in the plan in 2027. This will allow us to establish if companies can go further and faster to achieve the storm overflow targets in this Plan without having a disproportionate impact on consumers bills.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 20/04/2023 09:00:22 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1611384

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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	Water Companies: Pay
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 recent discussions her Department has had with (a) Ofwat and (b) other regulatory bodies on linking the pay of senior water company executives and directors to performance.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	181012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>Government have been clear that companies must be transparent about aligning water company bonuses payment to delivery of services for customers, including environmental performance.</p><p> </p><p>We have had discussions with Ofwat on company performance, including the need to increase transparency. We are pleased that, in December 2022, Ofwat strengthened its powers on executive pay awards by setting out that shareholders, and not customers, will fund pay awards where companies do not demonstrate their decisions on pay awards reflects overall performance. We support Ofwat’s new guidance on the scope and implementation of this new measure, published in March 2023.</p><p> </p><p>This new measure will provide positive steps to protecting consumer interest and our environment.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 20/04/2023 08:55:07 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1611385

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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	Water Charges: Sewers
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 recent estimate her Department has made on the average amount added to domestic water bills as a result of constructing new sewer systems.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	181013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>Water infrastructure is funded through customer bills. Every five years, Ofwat sets an overall cap on the total amount that each water company may recover from their customers, through a process called the Price Review. As part of this process Ofwat balances the interests of the consumers with the ability for companies to finance the delivery of its services, including the removal of sewerage from homes and its treatment.</p><p> </p><p>The current price review period runs from 2020-2025 and the level of investment in this period is £51 billion. The average household bill is £448 in 2023-24, of which £233 is spent on sewerage services, which includes building and maintaining sewer pipes, pumping sewage to treatment works, treatment, flowing cleaned and treated wastewater back into rivers and the sea and converting solid material from sewage into gas for energy.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 20/04/2023 08:51:43 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1611386

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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	Food Banks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the numbers of people using foodbanks.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	181014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>This Government is committed to understanding and addressing poverty which is why we have published official estimates of foodbank use for the first time. National statistics on food bank use for 2021/22 are available <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-resources-survey-financial-year-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">here.</a> We aim to publish statistics for 2022/23 in March 2024.</p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics show that in 2021/22, 93% of individuals were food secure.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 20/04/2023 15:42:53 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1607823

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Northern Transport Acceleration Council
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish (a) a list of current invitees to meetings of the Northern Transport Acceleration Council and (b) the number of meetings since 1 January 2022.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	174305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>Since 1 January 2022 the Northern Transport Acceleration Council held one full plenary meeting on 23 May 2022, to discuss the UK Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>Core membership of NTAC consists of the transport ministers, northern metro mayors, the leaders of northern transport authorities, as well as the Chief Executives of Network Rail, Highways England and HS2 Ltd. and the chair of the NP11.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>Ministers are currently reviewing the format and structure of regular engagement in the north, including the role to be played by the Northern Transport Acceleration Council given its overlap with Transport for the North.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 30/03/2023 08:29:57 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1607824

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	National Science and Technology Council
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on how many occasions the National Science and Technology Council has met since 25 October 2022.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	174306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>It is a long-established precedent that information about the discussions that have taken place in Cabinet and its Committees, and how often they have met, is not normally shared publicly.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 30/03/2023 14:59:20 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1607825

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
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	Prosthetics: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding is available to enable children and young people to access bionic prosthetics as of 27 March 2023.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	174307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>In October 2022, NHS England published a clinical commissioning policy for multi-grip upper limbs, which can be found at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/clinical-commissioning-policy-multi-grip-prosthetic-hand-all-ages/</p><p>This supports the provision of multi-grip upper limbs for both adults and children, where clinically appropriate. Microprocessor lower limbs are not routinely available for children and young people due to the length of the residual limb and their ability to tolerate the weight of a microprocessor-controlled knee.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 03/04/2023 09:01:51 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 66755 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis