Mr Toby Perkins

20 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Business: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the guidance sent by the Director of the Grant Delivery Directorate to councils on 10 November 2023, with the subject Flood Recovery Framework Schemes Operational Guidance - Business

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Business: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many businesses applied for a Business Recovery Grant following Storm Babet flooding in October 2023; and how many of those applications were (a) approved and (b) rejected in eac

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Business: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what guidance was provided to local authorities on the eligibility criteria for businesses applying for a Business Recovery Grant following flooding.

29 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Nature Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to her Department's National Policy Statements for Energy Infrastructure, published on 22 November 2023, whether she has made an assessment of the impact of the change in defin

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the likelihood of other countries asking for elements of the herbarium at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to be repatriated in the event of a move to t

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the level of (a) damage and (b) loss posed to the contents of the herbarium at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by a relocation.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the Equality Impact Assessment relating to the move of the herbarium at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to the Thames Valley Science Park.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate (a) his Department has and (b) the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have made of the energy costs of moving the herbarium to the Thames Valley Science Park.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the business case considered by the trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for moving the herbarium to the Thames Valley Science Park.

18 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent progress his Department has made towards developing a new regulatory regime to be implemented once cross-compliance ends in 2024.

21 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environmental Land Management Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) help optimise the (i) combination, (ii) scale and (iii) location of the take up of Environmental Land Management (ELM) options for nature rec

21 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environmental Land Management Schemes: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to publish (a) payment calculations and (b) option uptake data for the Environment Land Management scheme.

21 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Countryside Stewardship Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to include continuation of the Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier in the upcoming Agricultural Transition Plan update.

21 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to re-introduce environmental protections following the end of cross-compliance in January 2024.

21 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Countryside Stewardship Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers have applied to the Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier in the most recent application window; and what proportion of those were (a) eligible for and (b) offered an ag

21 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Environmental Improvement Plan 2023, published 31 January 2023, (a) how the target for 65% to 80% of farmers to adopt nature fri

8 Sep 2023 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Derbyshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children at (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in Derbyshire have Education, Health and Care plans; and how many such children are receiving education in line with the plan.

8 Sep 2023 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Derbyshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school students have been identified as requiring Special Education school provision outside mainstream schools in Derbyshire; and how many such children attend specialist

5 Sep 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Challenger Tanks

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the military capability provided by (a) Challenger 3 armoured vehicles and (b) other tanks.

1 Sep 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fish

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of levels of premature fish deaths in (a) rivers and (b) other fresh waterways this June; how many such deaths there were in each of the last five years; and

1 Sep 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fish

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to provide additional (a) guidance and (b) funding to (i) the Environment Agency and (ii) local authorities to help with the response to changes in the levels of fish

1 Sep 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Inland Waterways

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to protect the water quality of canals.

10 Jul 2023 · Treasury

Apprentices: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June to Questions 188238, 188239 and 188240 on Apprentices: Finance, whether the (a) Scottish, (b) Welsh and (c) Northern Ireland government receives funding under the Barnett formula fo

10 Jul 2023 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the ring-fenced apprenticeship budget has been allocated to apprenticeship funding for non-levy paying employers in each financial year since 2017-18.

10 Jul 2023 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the ring-fenced apprenticeship budget was in each year since 2017-18; and what proportion was raised by the Apprenticeship Levy in each of those years.

10 Jul 2023 · Treasury

Apprenticeship Levy

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts that the Apprenticeship Levy will raise in (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25.

10 Jul 2023 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of the apprenticeship budget has been spent by (a) apprenticeship levy payers and (b) non-levy payers in each year since 2017.

10 Jul 2023 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much from the public purse her Department ringfenced for the apprenticeship budget for England in (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24.

6 Jul 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fish Farming: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects her Department to publish the Animal Welfare Committee’s Opinion on the Welfare of Farmed Fish at the Time of Killing 2023.

7 Jun 2023 · Treasury

Apprenticeship Levy

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was generated by the apprenticeship levy in each year since its creation.