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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

May. 15 2024

Source Page: First Sea Lord’s Sea Power Conference 2024: Minister Trevelyan's keynote speech
Document: First Sea Lord’s Sea Power Conference 2024: Minister Trevelyan's keynote speech (webpage)

Found: asked, what your sailors do, sit up and watch in amazement as young men and women aboard HMS Diamond shared

Select Committee
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
 WQI0005 - Water quality and water infrastructure: follow-up

Written Evidence May. 15 2024

Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: In the North West, this figure is 54% with the industry average across the UK at 33%.

Select Committee
House of Commons, House of Commons, and Northern Ireland Office

Oral Evidence May. 15 2024

Inquiry: The Governance of the Union: Consultation, Co-operation and Legislative Consent
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Constitution Committee

Found: delivering good governance for the people of Northern Ireland but about delivering peace, stability and prosperity

Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Forestry Commission

May. 14 2024

Source Page: Board of Commissioners meeting, 13 July 2023
Document: (PDF)

Found: period of unprecedented investment in woodland creation and expansion, and the Nature for Climate Fund

Deposited Papers

May. 14 2024

Source Page: I. Best value standards and intervention: A statutory guide for best value authorities: a) Guidance and b) Government response to consultation. (2 docs.) II. Letter dated 08/05/2024 from Max Soule Deputy Director Local Government Stewardship to Liz Watts Chief Executive, South Cambridgeshire District Council regarding Best Value Notice issued to the Council. 3p. III. CIPFA Reviews of debt/investment risk profile for: a) Warrington Borough Council, b) Spelthorne Borough Council (2 docs). IV. Letter dated 08/05/2024 from Max Soule to Andrew Lewis regarding Liverpool City Council - proposed move to a statutory assurance and improvement board. 7p.
Document: official_Spelthorne_CIPFA_report.docx (webpage)

Found: There are digital and shared services initiatives, but they lack projected timescales or worked-up savings

Written Question
Rural Areas: Community Development
Tuesday 14th May 2024

Asked by: Andrew Bridgen (Independent - North West Leicestershire)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support small rural community projects in North West Leicestershire constituency.

Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

  • In September 2022, the UK Government launched the Rural England Prosperity Fund (REPF). The fund provides a rural top up to the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, providing allocations for eligible local authorities in England to help address the additional needs and challenges facing rural areas.

  • The fund provides capital funding to support new and improved community infrastructure. It will provide essential community services and assets for local people and businesses to benefit the local economy.

  • As part of the fund North West Leicestershire has received a total allocation of up to £469,090 between April 2023 and March 2025.

  • Local authorities are responsible for the delivery of the REPF – including assessing and approving project applications, processing payments and day-to-day monitoring. As with the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the REPF was designed to enable local decision making to better target the rural priorities of places within England. Places are empowered to identify and build on their own strengths and needs at a local level.

  • In addition, funding has been provided through Defra’s Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Fund. The St John the Evangelist Church in Donisthorpe received a £75,000 towards their project which aims to transform the inside of the church into a space which can be shared with the whole community. The improved, warmer, friendlier environment will help the building to become somewhere that the community are happy to enter and feel a belonging to, suitable for a variety of activities, bringing people together to care for one another.

  • This is one of 106 community buildings which have received grants from the Fund to date and with the additional £5 million of funding for community buildings announced in The Budget many more communities will be able to bid for grants to help improve their buildings.
Select Committee
Northern Ireland Assembly
 GOU0009 - The Governance of the Union: Consultation, Co-operation and Legislative Consent

Written Evidence May. 13 2024

Inquiry: The Governance of the Union: Consultation, Co-operation and Legislative Consent
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Constitution Committee

Found: by the UK leaving the European Union do not impinge on the place of Northern Ireland within the UK

Select Committee
Ayrshire Growth Deal
 CRG0015 - City Region and Growth Deals

Written Evidence May. 13 2024

Inquiry: City Region and Growth Deals
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Scottish Affairs Committee (Department: Scotland Office)

Found: Ayrshire Skills Investment Fund – a £3.5m, 3 year project.

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Ministry of Justice

May. 13 2024

Source Page: Times Law Awards 2024: Alex Chalk speech
Document: Times Law Awards 2024: Alex Chalk speech (webpage)

Found: Last year, with the judiciary, I set out a shared vision for a digital justice system that gives citizens

Written Question
UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Wales
Monday 13th May 2024

Asked by: Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru - Ceredigion)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) Welsh Government and (b) local authorities in Wales on the operation of the Shared Prosperity Fund after March 2025.

Answered by Jacob Young - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

Decisions regarding funding beyond March 2025 are ultimately a matter for the next Spending Review. We nevertheless appreciate the case for certainty and are committed to setting out further detail at the earliest opportunity.

Officials are in regular communication with all local authorities in Wales on this issue, as well as with the Welsh Local Government Association. We will work closely with the Welsh Government on the future of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.