Found: cent) with responsibility for the services reported that cost savings would be needed in their parks

Found: We have heard a lot recently about perceptions of parks and green spaces and that young women often

Found: We provide the secretariat for the Parks and Green Spaces APPG and the Tidy Britain APPG to bring

Found: planning and housing, homelessness prevention, welfare support, environmental health, waste collection, parks

Found: to: •neighbourhood planning •sport, leisure, and recreational services (including libraries) •parks

Found: and housing, homelessness prevention, welfare support, environmental health, waste collection, parks

Found: layouts, inadequate facilities, and poorly designed housing estates, along with a lack of parks

Found: Make Space for Girls, looks in part at the role that park design and management can play in making parks

Found: Girls and young women often report feeling unsafe when spending time in public spaces such as parks

Found: We developed some projects around making sure that we understood how important parks and green spaces

Found: We developed some projects around making sure that we understood how important parks and green spaces

Found: are today is only set to get worse as we look at an increasing population and increasing pressure on parks

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to increase access to green spaces.

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

National Planning Policy sets out that access to high quality open spaces and opportunities for sport and physical activity are important for the health and well-being of communities.

The Government is firmly committed to protecting and creating more parks and green spaces. Through the Levelling Up Parks Fund we have provided £9 million to create new or significantly refurbish existing green spaces.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many public parks and green spaces have been sold by local councils in each year since 2015 by (a) constituency and (b) region.

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

The information requested is not held centrally.

We want the Government to pass legislation which would allow local authorities to ringfence play areas and parks so that they have the authority to immediately move on any unauthorised encampments so as not to deny or deprive people of access to local green spaces.

Found: Our goal is to ensure that our play parks and green spaces are free from unauthorised encampments at

Found: £13.1 millionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government funding to improve and create parks

Found: that facilitates community engagement, such as internet access, the number of community centres and parks

Found: for Sandwell’s Emotional Wellbeing Programme  Green Flag Awards – Obtaining a record breaking 15 parks

Found: for Sandwell’s Emotional Wellbeing Programme  Green Flag Awards – Obtaining a record breaking 15 parks