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1683630

registered interest
date	19/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Palestinians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a Palestinian Visa scheme based upon the Ukraine Visa scheme that allows those with family in the UK to be given safe passage.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	10582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK Government is monitoring the situation in Israel and Gaza closely to ensure that it is able to respond appropriately.</p><p>We recognise that some people impacted by the events in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories may wish to join family in the UK. The Government is working with authorities across the region to facilitate the repatriation of British citizens and their family members who already hold permission to come to the UK.</p><p>There are currently no plans to introduce bespoke arrangements for people arriving from the region who do not hold permission to come to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 24/01/2024 16:16:35 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1682905

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
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	Air 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 the Government will adopt the World Health Organisation's guidelines on the maximum permissible levels of pollutants, published in September 2021, in the context of research published by the University of Dundee on the impact of air pollution on hospital admissions for respiratory disease among children.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>The World Health Organisation Air Quality Guidelines are intended to inform the setting of air quality standards and are not ready-made targets for adoption.</p><p> </p><p>We recently set two new stretching and achievable targets for fine particulate matter (PM<sub>2.5</sub>) under the Environment Act 2021, following an evidence-based process informed by the WHO Guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>We are working towards delivering these targets as set out in the Environmental Improvement Plan 2023 and Air Quality Strategy, which will have significant public health benefits, including for children.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 24/01/2024 16:22:23 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1682906

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Air Pollution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that children in school are not exposed to high levels of air pollution.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The department has published the Building Bulletin 101, which provides non-statutory guidance on ventilation, thermal comfort and indoor air quality in schools. This is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-bulletin-101-ventilation-for-school-buildings" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-bulletin-101-ventilation-for-school-buildings</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Local outdoor air quality is the responsibility of local authorities who should prepare air quality action plans to ensure the level of pollutants is reduced. In January 2019, the government published the Clean Air Strategy setting out plans to deal with all sources of pollution. This is accessible at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-air-strategy-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-air-strategy-2019</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance on good estate management for ventilation in schools is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/good-estate-management-for-schools/health-and-safety" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/good-estate-management-for-schools/health-and-safety</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 23/01/2024 17:24:10 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1681776

registered interest
date	12/01/2024
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	Air Pollution: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Office of Health Improvement and Disparities data on D01 - Fraction of mortality attributable to particulate air pollution (new method), if she will publish the annual number of deaths attributable to long term exposure to total concentrations of fine particulate matter for each year that data is available.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>The estimates for the fraction of mortality attributable to particulate air pollution, measured as PM2.5, are published every year. Data for 2022 will be published later this year. The fraction of mortality attributable to particulate air pollution indicator represents the percentage of annual deaths from all causes in those aged 30 and older attributed to PM2.5.</p><p>Annual numbers of deaths attributable to particulate air pollution are not calculated each year. The published estimate for England for 2019 was 26,000 to 38,000 deaths for adults aged 30 and over. For the United Kingdom, the published estimate for 2019 was 29,000 to 43,000 deaths for adults aged 30 and over.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 17/01/2024 14:45:38 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1681782

registered interest
date	12/01/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) average and (b) longest time between application and a start date for recruiting a civil servant was in the last three years; and whether he is taking steps to reduce those times.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>Civil Service recruitment must follow the rules set out in legislation within the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act (CRaGA) 2010 which outlines the requirements to ensure that Civil Servants are recruited on merit, via fair and open competition. The Civil Service must also ensure that detailed pre-employment checks (such as appropriate levels of security clearance) are carried out before employment can begin.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the average time to hire across departments can be found in the recent National Audit Office report published on ‘Civil service workforce: Recruitment, pay and performance management', found here: https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/civil-service-workforce/</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the Civil Service People Plan published on 10 January 2024, we are committed to ensuring we attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds, to create a brilliant Civil Service now, and for the future.</p><p> </p><p>We must modernise the ways we recruit, speed up and simplify the process and improve the candidate experience without compromising on quality or fairness. We must also continue to expand the use of secondments and other direct entry routes (including the Fast Stream and apprenticeships), ensuring they are properly embedded in the skills and resourcing strategies of all departments and professions.</p><p> </p><p>The Cabinet Office is introducing a set of consistent and comparable Civil Service recruitment measures and benchmarks which will be implemented across the Whitehall 17 departments. This will give greater transparency of metrics across the recruitment cycle.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 17/01/2024 17:52:10 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1681677

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
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	Air 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 steps he is taking to ensure compliance with (a) legal limits and (b) targets for (i) benzo[a]pyrene, (ii) nickel, (iii) nitrogen dioxide, (iv) ozone and (v) particulate matter.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>We are delivering a wide range of actions to drive improvements to air quality:</p><ul><li>We introduced two new interim targets for fine particulate matter, which are set out in our Environmental Improvement Plan 2023.</li><li>Delivering the NO<sub>2</sub> programme, which has ring-fenced £883m to work with local authorities to develop and implement measures to address NO<sub>2</sub> exceedances in the shortest possible time.</li><li>Published an update report that sets out the measures taken by operators and regulators to achieve target values for benzo[a]pyrene and nickel in December 2023 at <a href="https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/library/bap-nickel-measures?year=2021" target="_blank">2021 Reports on Measures - Defra, UK</a>.</li><li>Reducing the UK’s emissions of ozone precursor chemicals through the EIP and International engagement through the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP).</li></ul><p> </p><p>We continually measure ambient concentrations of a wide range of air pollutants, including ozone, nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, particles, hydrocarbons, and metallic pollutants at over 500 urban, suburban, roadside, industrial and rural locations throughout the UK. In September 2023 we published the Air Pollution in the UK 2022 report providing the most comprehensive and complete analytical picture of the UK’s air pollution during 2022, at <a href="https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/library/annualreport/" target="_blank">Air Pollution in the UK report - Defra, UK</a>.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 22/01/2024 15:16:01 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1681678

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
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	Clean Air Act 1993
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 reviews he has undertaken on the adequacy of the Clean Air Act 1993 since the Review of the Clean Air Act Call for Evidence Summary of Responses, published in July 2014.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>Since the Review of the Clean Air Act Call for Evidence Summary of Responses was published, we have passed the Environment Act 2021.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>This legislation updated our comprehensive legal framework, including by amending the Clean Air Act 1993. The Environmental Improvement Plan published in January 2023 sets out the further actions we will take to reduce emissions, including from domestic sources and industry.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 22/01/2024 15:47:03 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1681679

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
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	Clean Air Act 1993
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 ensure that the report entitled Assessment of the effectiveness of measures under the Clean Air Act 1993, published on 20 July 2012, is updated to include (a) modern fuels and (b) technologies.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>We have no current plans to update the named report.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Environment Act 2021, we updated our comprehensive legal framework, including by amending the Clean Air Act 1993. The Environmental Improvement Plan published in January 2023 sets out the further actions we will take to reduce emissions, including from domestic sources and industry.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 22/01/2024 15:12:13 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1681680

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Diesel Vehicles: Cars
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 6 December 2023 to Question 4770 on Diesel Vehicles: Cars, how many new diesel cars were registered for the first time to owners other than keepers in each region of England in (a) 2022 and (b) each month in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>This information is not held.</p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne question first answered 16/01/2024 16:19:09 answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1681681

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Diesel Vehicles: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2023 to Question 4772 on Diesel Vehicles: Greater London, how many diesel cars were registered for the first time in Greater London in (a) 2022 and (b) each month of 2023 that met the (i) Euro 6, (ii) Euro 5, (iii) Euro 4, (iv) Euro 3, (v) Euro 2 and (vi) Euro 1 engine emission standard.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne question first answered 16/01/2024 17:08:36 answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies