Lord Teverson: To ask His Majesty's Government when a decision will be made as to where the Celtic Sea floating offshore wind power line will come ashore and connect to the national electricity transmission grid; who will make that decision; and what mechanism will be used to decide on that location.
Lord Callanan: ...Security and Net Zero, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the National Physical Laboratory, the Health and Safety Executive, the Office for Product Safety and Standards, London Fire Brigade, Kent Fire and Rescue Services, the National Fire Chief’s Council, the Association For Renewable Energy and Clean Technology, the National Association of Professional Inspectors...
Lord Foster of Bath: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk of fires arising from solar photovoltaic panels.
Leo Docherty: ...to help to facilitate border crossings, including on the border points in Egypt, as well as Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia. We have also established a temporary presence in Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast.
Tulip Siddiq: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what eligibility criteria his Department used to identify which developers to ask to sign the developer remediation contract.
Richard Holden: Since announcing the Nine Point Plan the Government has:Brought in the Seafarers’ Wages Act which will ensure that seafarers employed aboard ships regularly operating from UK ports will be paid at least an equivalent to the National Minimum Wage in UK waters.Worked with industry and unions to develop the Seafarers’ Charter, which will encourage and recognise ferry operators taking extra...
James Cartlidge: The concept phase work to date for the Mobile Fires Platform has been conducted under existing contracts or internally in the Ministry of Defence. The Department tracks spending on Mobile Fires Platforms under each of the different contracts and internally. The table below therefore shows the spend to date in support of each part of the concept phase for the Mobile Fires Platform rather than...
Bob Seely: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps the Navy is taking to work with Joint Expeditionary Force partners and NATO to protect critical underwater cables and pipelines.
James Murray: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has had recent discussions with Pocket Living on remediation of fire safety defects in buildings it has developed.
Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of equipment available to fight wild fires.
Matthew Offord: To ask the Attorney General, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of support provided to Crown Prosecution Service lawyers prosecuting rape and serious sexual offences in London.
Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department has provided support for (a) building a bridge between St Kitts and Nevis and (b) the Sea City development in St Kitts and Nevis.
Lord Berkeley: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the statement by the Council of the Isles of Scilly published on 14 April 2023 that the Department for Transport will take the lead on the Isles of Scilly Sea Links Project, whether this is the same project for which the Council of the Isles of Scilly submitted a Levelling Up Fund bid for £48.4 million in June 2021.
Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to prevent wild fires in summer 2023.
Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the role of (a) UK agriculture and (b) farmers in (i) preventing and (ii) fighting wild fires.
Mark Spencer: Highly Protected Marine Areas are areas of the sea which will prohibit all destructive, extractive, and depositional activities, including bottom trawling. The Government announced it will explore additional Highly Protected Marine Areas this year. We will also continue to ban bottom trawling in our Marine Protected Areas wherever that is needed to protect the designated species and...
Emily Thornberry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete in (a) police stations and (b) fire stations in England and Wales and its potential impact on the structural integrity of those facilities.
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2023 to Question 172980 on Artillery: Finance, when the Mobile Fires Platform will exit the concept phase.
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has an obligation post-conflict to help clear up depleted uranium rounds fired by Challenger 2 tanks in Ukraine.
Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department monitors the locations where British-supplied Challenger 2 tanks fire depleted uranium rounds in Ukraine.