Correspondence Oct. 30 2024
Committee: Business and Trade Committee (Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)Found: on Agricultural Cooperation between the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (“MOAC”) and the Department
Correspondence Oct. 30 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: extent until the end of the scheme), which could be avoided. 16 Green Recovery Challenge Fund Department
Correspondence Oct. 30 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: extent until the end of the scheme), which could be avoided. 16 Green Recovery Challenge Fund Department
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1: Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire) Indeed, reading the detail on page 37 of the Budget, we will have a real-terms 2% decrease in the Department - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Browning (Con - Life peer) amendments in this group tabled in my name seek to mitigate what could quickly become a standoff between the Department - Speech Link
Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 22 October 2024 to Question 9455 on Air Pollution: Poverty, if he will take steps to reduce the number of schools in England that are in areas exceeding World Health Organisation guidelines for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government is determined to improve air quality and protect children from the harms of pollution, and is committed to meeting the legal targets for air quality, including the targets recently set under the Environment Act 2021. The Department of Health and Social Care is working across Government to achieve this, including with the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs on their Clean Air Strategy to reduce emissions and reduce harms associated with air pollution.
Local air quality is the responsibility of local authorities, who should prepare air quality action plans to ensure the level of pollutants is reduced, if it is not compliant with relevant limits. Local authorities are responsible for monitoring air quality in their areas and will decide where to undertake their monitoring, which may be around schools. The Government will continue to work with local authorities to support their work on improving air quality. Active Travel England and the Department for Transport are working on guidance for local authorities to help them implement School Streets vehicle access restrictions effectively.
Asked by: Baroness Altmann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sherlock on 7 August (HL344), how many staff in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are permitted to undertake diversity-related network time during core working hours; what is the percentage of overall working time they are permitted to spend on such network activity; how many hours are allocated in total; which networks are being funded; and whether they have any plans alter such funding.
Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The delivery of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Staff Network activity is agreed between networks and departments as the employer. This includes permitted time allocation and any funding arrangements. The majority of staff time spent on diversity staff networks is voluntary and unpaid.
Defra does not afford any protected time to network leads or co-chairs or anyone involved in network activity.
Oct. 29 2024
Source Page: Biodiversity Finance Trends 2024Found: From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Published 29 October 2024 Get emails
Oct. 29 2024
Source Page: Criteria for 30by30 on land in EnglandFound: From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Published 29 October 2024 Get emails
Agendas and papers Oct. 29 2024
Committee: Liaison Committee (Lords)Found: departments, including (but not limited to): • the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC); • the Department