Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) authority is delayed.We have set the figures in the formula for the calculation of candidate spending limits - Speech Link
2: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) growth in their areas, including over planning, housing, transport, net zero and adult education, creating - Speech Link
Apr. 29 2024
Source Page: CH65 4EY, Innospec Limited: environmental permit issued – EPR/BM0508IG/V008Found: These limits are based on those from the Medium Combustion Plant Directive.
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of big technology digital companies on the online news media market.
Answered by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
As the independent Cairncross Review into the future of journalism identified, more and more aspects of society are played out online, and local news publishers are facing significant challenges in transitioning to sustainable digital business models. The Cairncross Review further concluded that some of the biggest technology companies are able to impose unfair terms on publishers, which limits publishers’ ability to monetise their content and threatens the sustainability of the press. We have introduced legislation to address the far-reaching power of the biggest technology firms. Among many other things, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill will help to rebalance the relationship between publishers and the online platforms on which they increasingly rely.
We have also supported news publishers through the delivery of a £2 million Future News Fund, the zero-rating of VAT on e-newspapers, and the publication of the Online Media Literacy Strategy. The BBC also continues to support the sector directly, through the £8 million it spends each year on the Local News Partnership, including the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme, which was expanded in 2020 to fund the placement of 165 journalists in newsrooms across the UK.
Separately, Ofcom is exploring the possible impacts of the growth of online news, and the role of online intermediaries in particular, on media plurality, and what, if any, regulatory changes may be necessary to maintain and secure it. We will consider Ofcom’s recommendations when its findings are published.
Jan. 16 2024
Source Page: Up-rating report 2024Found: Fund projections The Up-rating report includes projections of the Fund up to and including 2028 to 2029
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with refence to her Department's press release entitled Crackdown on rip-off university degrees, published on 17 July 2023, on which degree courses she plans to increase controls.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The department wants to ensure that all students, regardless of their background, benefit from high quality, world-leading higher education (HE) that leads to excellent outcomes.
The Office for Students (OfS) has responsibility for monitoring quality and standards and acting where there is a breach of its conditions of registration. The OfS registration condition B3 sets minimum requirements for student outcomes, including course continuation, completion and progression onto graduate employment or further study.
Where courses perform below these thresholds, the providers could face investigation, enabling the OfS to understand the reasons for their performance. If a HE provider is found to be in breach of regulatory requirements, the OfS has the power to intervene and impose sanctions.
To date, the OfS has undertaken 18 investigations in relation to student outcomes (B3) performance. The OfS will publish the outcomes of those investigations in due course and will make decisions about whether regulatory action is appropriate. The department expects the OfS to take decisive action where there has been a clear breach of B3, including, where appropriate, through the use of recruitment limits. Recruitment limits will prevent the growth of courses that do not meet minimum expectations for student outcomes, where there is no justifiable explanation for them failing to do so.
Other sanctions available to the OfS include issuing a specific ongoing condition of registration requiring an improvement in performance, financial penalties and ultimately the suspension or removal of the HE provider from the register (and with it, access to student finance).
May. 17 2024
Source Page: YO19 6QL, H BARKER & SON LIMITED environmental permit issued - EPR/BP3628SX/A001Found: Emission Limits We have decided that emission limits are not required in the permit.
Mentions:
1: Robison, Shona (SNP - Dundee City East) Previously, annual and cumulative limits for borrowing and reserve limits had been set in nominal terms - Speech Link
2: Gibson, Kenneth (SNP - Cunninghame North) Both limits are now index linked to the GDP deflator. - Speech Link
3: Thomson, Michelle (SNP - Falkirk East) debt”.They“have no excess capital to invest to spur growth.”They“are typically subject to higher borrowing - Speech Link
4: McMillan, Stuart (SNP - Greenock and Inverclyde) increase from £300 million to £600 million, with no limits to the amount that can be drawn from the - Speech Link
Apr. 03 2024
Source Page: YO7 3SS, I'Anson Bros Limited: environmental permit issued - EPR/EP3429SG/A001Found: demonstrate compliance with the emission limits specified in the permit.
Mentions:
1: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) Lady that, since leaving the European Union, our growth rate has been better than that of Germany, and - Speech Link
2: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) bring down the speed limits on perfectly safe dual carriageways from 70 mph to 50 mph. - Speech Link
3: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) will improve connectivity and drive economic growth. - Speech Link
4: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) It is not just about levelling-up funds; we have had four growth deals across the length and breadth - Speech Link
Jan. 25 2024
Source Page: IP4 5PG, SRCL Limited: environmental permit issued – EPR/EP3530XY/V003Found: . 5.2 Emission s to air and the emission limits applied to the plant The consolidated permit