Written Question
Friday 23rd July 2021
Asked by:
Liam Fox (Conservative - North Somerset)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data has been used to assess the western boundary of the Bristol Clean Air Zone, specifically the Portway and Brunel Bridge regional through route.
Answered by Rebecca Pow
Bristol is introducing a Clean Air Zone (CAZ) to bring the roads in the city into compliance with NO2 limits in the shortest possible time.
Bristol has proposed that the zone boundary should include the Portway and Brunel Bridge routes, and has carried out modelling to understand the traffic and air quality data to show the impact of removing these routes from the CAZ. This modelling indicated that removing these roads from within the zone boundary would delay the date by which roads in Bristol are compliant with legal limits for NO2. The Government is currently considering this information as part of our review of Bristol’s Full Business Case.
Written Question
Tuesday 9th March 2021
Asked by:
Liam Fox (Conservative - North Somerset)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Environment Agency on the capacity of the emergency leak protection bund at the Redcliffe Bay Petroleum Storage Depot.
Answered by Rebecca Pow
No such discussions have taken place.
Redcliffe Bay Petroleum Storage Depot is jointly regulated by the Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency under the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations 2015 as an Upper Tier establishment. The Environment Agency has had discussions at an operational level with the site operator about containment in the event of an emergency. Based on the information obtained at the last inspection, the Environment Agency was satisfied with the containment and associated procedures at the site.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 May 2020
Agriculture Bill
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2019
UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2019
UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union
"I am not giving way.
The alternative is to revoke article 50 and have no Brexit at all, with unavoidable and unforeseeable consequences.
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2019
UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2019
UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union
"Pharmaceutical companies are ensuring—[Interruption.] I am not taking interventions. Pharmaceutical companies are ensuring adequate stocks and increased air freight capacity. We have set out our new tariff policies for day one, liberalising our economy so that 87% of imports will be tariff-free, and setting up a trade …..."Liam Fox - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2019
UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2019
UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union
"The Father of the House already had more time to make his contribution than I have had today.
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2019
UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union
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