Steve Darling

30 Aug 2024 · Treasury

Bank Services: Access

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a national framework inclusion strategy on accessible and inclusive banking.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Beavers: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to help increase the population of wild beavers.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the potential merits of amending visa rules for fishing crew to provide additional (a) employment and

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to protect fishing grounds in the context of the increase in (a) offshore wind energy developments and (b) protected areas.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) providing additional Government funding and (b) co-funding with fishing groups to help improve the development of fisheries

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to provide grant funding for the refurbishment of (a) fishing ports and (b) processing infrastructure.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Vessels: Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to introduce incentives to replace older fishing vessels with fuel-efficient alternatives.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to provide grant funding to support the modernisation of the fishing industry.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Seafood: Trade Promotion

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to promote British seafood (a) domestically and (b) abroad.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to develop a national fishing strategy.

30 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Motorhomes: Parking

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of placing a duty on local authorities to provide overnight parking for motorhomes on local authority owned land.

30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Public Buildings: Defibrillators

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a duty on local authorities to facilitate the installation of defibrillators on buildings that they own.

30 Jul 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Holiday Accommodation: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a registration scheme for short term lets.

30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Torbay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the waiting list for NHS dentists in Torbay.

30 Jul 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

VisitEngland: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding her Department plans to allocate to the Devon Local Visitor Economy Partnership.

30 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Long-term Plan for Towns: Torquay

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Our Long-Term Plan for Towns, published on 1 October 2023, what her planned timetable is for providing targeted support t

30 Jul 2024 · Home Office

Exploitation: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to criminalise the act of exploiting children for criminal purposes.

30 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that funding for social rented housing goes to communities where the need is greatest.

30 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure water quality monitoring data is published all year round.

30 Jul 2024 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: South West

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to relocate Government (a) departments and (b) agencies to the South West.

30 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Swimming: Coastal Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to help improve the quality of bathing water around Britain's shores.

30 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mayors: South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of public support for an elected Mayor in the South West peninsula.

30 Jul 2024 · Department for Transport

Railways: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress she has made on (a) rail and (b) station improvements in (i) Torbay and (ii) Devon.

30 Jul 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Summertime

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment as part of his next spending review of the potential economic merits of double British Summer time.

30 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Private Education: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) private school pupils in (i) Devon, (ii) Torbay and (iii) Plymouth who will transfer into the state sector in this and each of the next five years and (b) surplus

30 Jul 2024 · Home Office

Police and Crime Commissioners

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce legislation to (a) abolish the post of Police and Crime Commissioners and (b) replace them with local boards of elected councillors.

30 Jul 2024 · Home Office

Police and Crime Commissioners: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to abolish the recruitment of deputy Police and Crime Commissioners.

30 Jul 2024 · Home Office

Police and Crime Commissioners: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to take steps to increase transparency around the recruitment of Deputy Police and Crime Commissioners.

30 Jul 2024 · Home Office

Police and Crime Commissioners: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department provides on rules governing the recruitment of Deputy Police and Crime Commissioners.

30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Family Hubs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to continue funding (a) family hubs and (b) the Start for Life programme.