Shaun Davies MP: written questions
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Written questions
Recovery of CostsMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3847More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to allow Courts to impose cost orders on those who (a) plead and (b) are found guilty in order to recover the costs of (i) investigating the offence, (ii) bringing the case to Court and (iii) le
Answer: Courts have wide ranging powers to impose cost orders on defendants and to recover some of the costs of investigating the offence and bringing the case to court. All such orders are at the discretion of the court, ensuring that they are just and reasonabl...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping: Fixed PenaltiesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3846More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will provide councils with powers to recover the full cost of (a) investigations, (b) prosecutions, (c) clean up and (d) prevention of fly tipping when issuing fixed penalty noti
Answer: Local authorities can issue fixed penalty notices of up to £1,000 to fly-tippers. The income from these fixed penalty notices must be spent on enforcement and clean-up specifically. The department has not yet made an assessment of this policy, which was i...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3845More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what weighting (a) his Department and (b) the Environment Agency give to world heritage site status when determining funding for flood defences.
Answer: The impacts of coastal erosion and flooding on heritage assets are included in the economic impacts assessment for flood and coastal erosion schemes. Last year, the Environment Agency published the Environment and Historic Environment Outcomes Valuation G...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many proposed homes have received planning permission to be built but have not been built after (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four, (e) five and (f) six years or more.
Answer: Estimates of how many homes received planning permission in each year are published by the department as part of its quarterly statistics on Planning Applications in England and can be found here: Planning applications statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).We ...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordMagistrates' Courts: TelfordMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3843More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many sitting days Telford Magistrates Court rooms were not used (a) at all and (b) in part in each of the last three years.
Answer: HMCTS records the availability of courtroom in ‘sessions’. A ‘session’ represents the time that court/hearing room space is available, with up to two sessions available each day. Available and unavailable sessions are recorded for all jurisdictions.Telfor...
Answered 11 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTrials: TelfordMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3842More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time is for a trial to be heard at Telford Magistrates' Court.
Answer: We do not publish a ‘waiting time’ measure for Magistrates’ courts. The Magistrates’ courts timeliness tool contains published estimates of timeliness from offence to case completion at the Magistrates’ courts. It is available down to Local Criminal Justi...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTrials: ShrewsburyMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3841More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time is for a trial at Shrewsbury Crown Court.
Answer: We have interpreted waiting time to refer to the time between the date of sending a case to the Crown Court and the start of the substantive “main” Crown Court hearing.The average (median) waiting time at Shrewsbury Crown Court in 2023 was 42 days, compar...
Answered 11 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHospices: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3322More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure the long-term (a) funding and (b) sustainability of hospices.
Answer: Palliative care services are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission. This promotes a more consistent national approach and supports commissioners in prioritising palliative and end of life care. To support ICBs in ...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordUK Infrastructure BankTreasuryTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3321More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which schemes the UK Infrastructure Bank has (a) accepted and (b) declined, by local authority area; and how much and what proportion of infrastructure finance available to the bank remained as of 4 July 2024.
Answer: The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) sets out financial information in their Annual Reports and Accounts, which are published on their website at https://www.ukib.org.uk/publications and provided to the house on a yearly basis. Further UKIB provides factshee...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPublic Works Loan BoardTreasuryTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3320More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing the onward interest charge of the Public Works Loan Board to local councils on (a) housing growth, (b) economic growth, (c) job creation and (d) loc
Answer: The PWLB lending facility exists to provide cost effective loans to local authorities to support investment and service delivery. HM Treasury keeps the interest rates of PWLB loans under review to ensure that PWLB lending remains supportive of prudent inv...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCombined AuthoritiesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what powers combined authorities have to expand; what criteria they need to fulfil to expand; what consent from other public bodies will be required for expansion; and what the t
Answer: The process for combined authority expansion is set out in the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009. A combined authority must apply to the Secretary of State regarding their proposal to expand. There must be a public consultati...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordMatthew WebbDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3318More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Captain Matthew Webb swimming the English Channel.
Answer: As the first person recorded to swim unaided across the Channel, Captain Matthew Webb’s achievement has no doubt inspired many people to undertake record breaking challenges of endurance. My department is not planning to commemorate the anniversary. Parli...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordWorld Heritage Sites: Ironbridge GorgeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3317More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support her Department is providing to (a) Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and (b) the wider World Heritage Site in Ironbridge Gorge.
Answer: Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is a National Portfolio Organisation funded by Arts Council England, and receives £749,709 annually.In 2022 Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust (IGMT) also received £9.975m from Cultural Assets Fund as part of DCMS Culture Recovery...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordEducation: TelfordDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3316More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's population assumption is for Telford for (a) pre school, (b) primary school, (c) secondary and (d) SEND provision in each academic year from 2020-21 to 2025-26.
Answer: The department collects and publishes forecasts made by local authorities of demand for primary and secondary pupil places from the annual School Capacity (SCAP) survey, which are available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-st...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: ShropshireDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3315More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Environment Agency is taking to help prevent flooding in Ironbridge Gorge; and what investment his Department is providing to protect (a) businesses and (b) properties f
Answer: Protecting communities around the country from flooding and coastal erosion is one of the new Secretary of State’s five core priorities. This Government will improve resilience and preparation across central Government, local authorities, local communitie...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Data ProtectionDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3314More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to share data for free with local councils on (a) Universal Credit, (b) unemployment benefits, (c) young people who are out of work and (d) benefit fraud.
Answer: DWP share personal data with local authorities. That includes three shares of Universal Credit data, with improvements to two of these due in the next 6 months, and an additional Universal Credit data share currently being explored. Similarly, DWP share i...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordJobcentres: BuildingsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3313More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of the potential savings generated by selling Jobcentre buildings and co-locating with other public bodies.
Answer: DWP continually review One Public Estate opportunities, and at any time, a number of these are individually being evaluated. The department’s estate is leased rather than owned, so there are no opportunities to sell buildings. However, there can be divest...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncil TaxMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3312More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will allow upper tier councils to increase council tax by a set cash amount.
Answer: Council tax levels are decided by individual local authorities. Decisions on future local authority funding will be a matter for the next Spending Review and Local Government Finance Settlement.
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordForeign Investment in UK: TelfordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3311More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the (a) economic growth, (b) new homes and (c) new jobs that will be delivered by the Telford Land Deal; and whether her Department will
Answer: The Department and Homes England are working with Telford and Wrekin Council through the Telford Land Deal and Funding and Co-operation Agreement to deliver up to 2,800 homes as well as 8,500 jobs and 300,000 sqm of employment floorspace. Homes England co...
Answered 30 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordWest Mercia PoliceHome OfficeTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3310More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of not having a permanent Chief Constable since 2023 on the governance of West Mercia Police; and what discussions she has had with (a) the force
Answer: Strong and consistent leadership is essential in ensuring high standards in police forces. In the absence of a permanent Chief Constable, regulations allow for an acting Chief Constable to be in place on an interim basis, in order to provide for consisten...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: ShropshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3309More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the performance of (a) Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust, (b) Shropshire Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board and (c) NHS Shropshi
Answer: The Government has been clear that National Health Services are currently not meeting the high standards that patients should expect, and is committed to supporting the NHS to return to the standards set out in the NHS Constitution. As a first step, my Rt...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordRailways: West MidlandsDepartment for TransportTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3308More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential economic impact of electrifying the train track from Telford to (a) Wolverhampton and (b) Shrewsbury.
Answer: With an indicative cost of ~£270m, Midlands Connect, the sub-national transport body which researches, develops and progresses transport projects in the Midlands, view electrification of this route as prohibitively expensive. However, they are refreshing ...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordM54: M6Department for TransportTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3307More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made on the potential economic impact of linking the M54 and M6 north.
Answer: The proposed M54 to M6 link road in the Road Investment Strategy was most recently assessed as high value for money and with a benefit to cost ratio of 3.17.
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordRailways: TelfordDepartment for TransportTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3306More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential economic impact of introducing a direct train from Telford to London.
Answer: No assessment has been made of the economic benefit of introducing a direct train from Telford to London. Since June 2024, Telford Central has had a regular fast service every 30 minutes to and from Birmingham New Street that provides good onward connecti...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordIndependent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Exploitation in TelfordHome OfficeTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3305More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the independent report into child sexual exploitation in Telford, published on 12 July 2022.
Answer: The findings of the independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Telford exposed shocking cases of the most vulnerable in our society being abused and let down by adults who were supposed to protect them. The Government recognises the important r...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
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