Asked by: John Grogan (Labour - Keighley)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much each national park authority spent on programmes to improve public transport access to national parks in 2017-18.
Answered by Thérèse Coffey
The total spent by the ten national park authorities in England (including the Broads Authority) on programmes to improve public transport access to national parks in the financial year 2017-18 is shown in the table below. These figures include ongoing support for transport services as well as projects to improve existing access.
National park authority | 2017-18 spending (£)[1] |
Broads Authority | 732 |
Dartmoor | 2,500 |
Exmoor | 0 |
Lake District | 21,186 |
New Forest | 52,015 |
North York Moors | 26,000 |
Northumberland | 12,000 |
Peak District | 4,000 |
South Downs | 0 |
Yorkshire Dales | 0 |
Total | 118,433 |
In addition to this total, national park authorities report £49,001 of indirect spend aimed at users of public and sustainable transport in national parks
[1] Figures provided by national park authorities.
Asked by: John Grogan (Labour - Keighley)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to introduce section 24 of the Deregulation Act 2015 on the provision of gates on restricted byways.
Answered by Thérèse Coffey
We have not set a timeline for introduction. Drafting of the required statutory instruments is underway after close working with the Stakeholder group
Asked by: John Grogan (Labour - Keighley)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of Eunomia's Residual Waste Infrastructure Review, Issue 12, published in July 2017, which concluded that there is overcapacity in the incinerator sector in the UK.
Answered by Thérèse Coffey
The incineration of waste with energy recovery (also known as energy from waste) plays an important role in diverting waste from landfill but is lower in the waste hierarchy, which prioritises prevention, recycling and the re-use of waste.
We will consider the findings of Eunomia, on waste infrastructure capacity as we develop future policy on waste and resources.