Lord Evans of Rainow: Excellent progress has been made with Freeport delivery - all English Freeports are open for business and seven out of eight have final government approval. We have also announced two new Green Freeports in Scotland as well as two new Freeports in Wales. The location of each Freeport can be found on the Freeports page on GOV.UK. The lack of a functioning Northern Ireland Executive has...
Lord Evans of Rainow: Further to the answer provided by Baroness Scott of Bybrook on 14 April 2023, the Secretary of State is mindful of the need for Commissioner remuneration to represent value for money for local taxpayers. The Liverpool Commissioners' pay arrangements were set out in paragraph 45 of the updated Explanatory Memorandum to the Directions made under section 15(5) and (6) of the Local Government Act...
Lord Evans of Rainow: The Secretary of State, on 5 October 2023, confirmed his final decision to intervene at Birmingham City Council to protect residents and taxpayers in the city. He is satisfied that there is evidence of Best Value failure and that intervention is necessary for Birmingham to secure compliance with the Best Value Duty under the Local Government Act 1999. This follows consideration of...
Lord Evans of Rainow: The What Works Centre for Wellbeing currently receives funding from Cabinet Office, DCMS, and the Department for Transport. This includes work supported by the Evaluation Accelerator Fund, details of which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-accele rator-fund. The department will continue working with a variety of partners to deliver levelling up. Evaluation...
Lord Evans of Rainow: The amendment in question is not part of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill.
Lord Evans of Rainow: I am aware that the Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case, has stated that he is considering this matter. All civil servants must abide by the Civil Service Code and the law, and that applies to civil servants working for the Scottish Government. People expect their Governments to be fully focused on the issues which matter most to them: driving down inflation, growing our economy and maintaining the...
Lord Evans of Rainow: The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities does not maintain an historical list of ministerial appointments and the dates of those appointments. Such information is publicly available through a variety of sources.
Lord Evans of Rainow: Data on the levels of overcrowding can be found in the English Housing Survey 2021 to 2022: social rented sector report We are committed to reducing overcrowding and the length of social housing waiting lists, by increasing the supply of affordable housing and enabling councils and other social landlords to make better use of their existing stock. That is why since 2010, we have delivered...
Lord Evans of Rainow: In line with the practice of successive administrations, details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.
Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help businesses build trading opportunities abroad.
Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the centenary of the First World War is commemorated in local communities.
Graham Evans: To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the annual change in on-trade beer prices in each year since 2007 for the purposes of assessing beer duty.
Graham Evans: To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on jobs and investment in the beer industry of a reduction in beer duty.
Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that police and security services have the powers necessary to apprehend people planning terrorist attacks in the UK.
Graham Evans: To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of excise duty rates on beer exports.
Graham Evans: To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on jobs and investment in pubs and breweries of the (a) reduction in beer duty in 2014, (b) reduction in beer duty in 2015 and (c) freeze in beer duty in 2016.
Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the written statement of 12 December 2016, (HCW 5339), what the planned (a) timetable and (b) content is for the Automatic Enrolment 2017 Review.
Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to tackle anti-Semitism and holocaust denial on university campuses.
Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it remains her Department's policy to support the Holocaust Educational Trust's Lessons from Auschwitz Project.