Written questions

1,108 written questions tabled, most recent first.

23 Mar 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Countryside: Codes of Practice

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to increase awareness of The Countryside Code as covid-19 restrictions are eased and more people visit the countryside.

22 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Recreation Spaces

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which Minister has responsibility for parks and green spaces.

22 Mar 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Parks

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure all communities have access to a quality park to allow people to exercise in a safe outdoors space.

22 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Parks

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many joint meetings the cross-departmental working group and park sector group have had; and what the outcomes of those meetings were.

22 Mar 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Green Recovery Challenge Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of the Government's £40 million Green Recovery Challenge Fund will be allocated to the funding of parks and green spaces.

22 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Public Health: Parks

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many joint parks and public health strategies have been produced by local authorities since 2016; and whether he plans to make the production of such strategies a statutory duty.

19 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Recreation Spaces: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure adequate (a) staffing, (b) toilets and (c) other facilities are provided at parks and green spaces.

19 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Parks: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure sufficient funding is provided to maintain parks to the Government standard set out in the Green Flag Award.

19 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Recreation Spaces: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what direct financial support his Department is providing to local authority parks and green spaces.

19 Mar 2021 · Department for Education

Pupils: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 18th March 2021 to Question 168885 on Pupils: Hearing Impairment, what specific guidance and advice has been issued to (a) schools, (b) colleges and (c) nurseries on how to meet the du

18 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport

Roads: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the report on road safety targets that was commissioned by his Department in conjunction with WSP and Loughborough University.

16 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Juries: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether Clause 164 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill would allow deaf people who need Speech to Text Reporting within the deliberation room to undertake jury service.

16 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Juries: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what adjustments do HM Courts and Tribunal Service offer to deaf jurors who need speech to text reporting within a deliberation room.

15 Mar 2021 · Department for Education

Pupils: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is his policy that education setting providers should make all necessary reasonable adjustments to ensure that deaf children are not disadvantaged by the use of face coverings in classrooms during th

15 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Eastern leg of HS2 goes ahead.

15 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport

Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to increase rail connectivity between Nottingham and the rest of the UK.

15 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line: Euston Station

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of reducing the number of HS2 platforms planned at Euston Station from 11 to 10 on the (a) overall capacity on (i) HS2 and (ii) the HS2 Eastern route and (c)

9 Mar 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the access of vision impaired pupils to quality learning while learning at home during covid-19 school closures.

9 Mar 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that vision impaired pupils have fair and equal access to learning at home during the covid-19 school closures.

22 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Cycling and Walking: Urban Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to revise his Department’s Road Traffic Forecasts to take account of the Government’s commitment to increase cycling and walking to 50 per cent of short journeys in towns and cities by 2030.

22 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Cycling and Walking: Urban Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications for road and public transport use of his target to increase cycling and walking to 50 per cent of short journeys in towns and cities by 2030; and what assessment

19 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2021 to Question 146856, on Disability Employment Advisors, by how much she plans to increase the number of disability employment advisers during the financial year

19 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Cycling and Walking: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans for the successor scheme to the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy to (a) retain the existing targets to double cycling trips and to increase walking trips to school journeys, (b) include

19 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Cycling and Walking: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to put in place a new Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, before the current strategy period ends at the beginning of April 2021.

19 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Railways: Tickets

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the potential annual gross income stream across all train operating companies after the covid-19 lockdown from (a) weekly seasons tickets and (b) 3-day or part time period tickets

11 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Cycling and Walking: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the extent to which the objectives of the 2017 Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy to (a) increase cycling and walking activity and (b) reduce the rate of cycling casualties b

10 Feb 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Buses: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support bus manufacturing in the UK; and when he or his Ministerial team last met with representatives of UK bus manufacturers.

10 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Buses: Exhaust Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many zero-emission buses his Department plans to provide funding for in the financial years (a) 2021-22, (b) 2022-23 and (c) 2023-24.

10 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Buses: Exhaust Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he estimates the 800 zero-emission buses, for which funding was announced in the 2020 Spending Review, will be (a) ordered and (b) in use.

2 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Taxis: EU Countries

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment was made of the circumstances of UK-based private hire drivers who give tours to the EU as part of negotiations on the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

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