This Government fully recognises the value of outdoor learning and its positive impact on young people’s wellbeing, school attainment, and reducing negative future outcomes.

As part of Youth Matters: Your National Youth Strategy, DCMS is investing over £60 million to provide local organisations with money to deliver high-quality youth work and enriching activities, as well as £350 million to refurbish or build up to 250 youth facilities. This will include outdoor activities and many other fun activities that benefit young people. We are designing the programme and will provide eligibility criteria in due course.

We have also launched Every Child Can, which will invest £132.5m of dormant assets exclusively across the five key categories of enrichment announced in the Enrichment Framework. This includes opportunities in nature, outdoor and adventure.

We are committed to delivering gigabit broadband coverage to 99% of premises by 2032. Where premises are too costly to connect via gigabit fibre, alternative such as satellite broadband can play a role in providing quality connectivity, including in Huntingdonshire.

Satellite broadband coverage is currently widely available across the UK at ultrafast (100 Mbps or faster) speeds, with remote and rural residents already taking up these services. However, Starlink is currently the only company offering residential satellite broadband services.

The satellite market is developing at pace, with significant changes to terminal equipment, speeds and the cost of service packages. We are continuing to monitor and support the development of this market, including by encouraging spectrum releases and ground station deployments. We are expecting new market entrants which will increase consumer choice and availability.

A breakdown of the £116,588 of Sport England funding in the constituency of Huntingdon during 2024/2025 is below:

As of 1 April 2026, there are at least 300 public charge points in Huntingdonshire.

The Government expects most charge points to be delivered by the private sector, which has announced £6 billion of investment in charging infrastructure by 2030.

The Huntingdon constituency will also benefit from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority’s over £6 million allocation from the Government’s £480 million Local EV Infrastructure (LEVI) Fund. The Combined Authority is currently undertaking procurement of charge points. This will help attract private investment and expand local charging infrastructure, particularly for those without access to off-street parking.

The Huntingdon constituency will benefit from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority’s £6.1m allocation through the Government’s Local EV Infrastructure Fund. LEVI allocated capital and resource funding to all highest tier LAs in England to ensure equitable chargepoint rollout. Funding allocations were determined through an assessment of local authority need across variables including levels of off-street parking, existing charging infrastructure, rurality and deprivation levels.

UK Sport, the government's arm's length body, provides funding for elite-level gymnastics on a nationwide basis rather than through constituency-specific allocations.

Sport England, the Government’s arms length body for grassroots sport, has invested £116,588 of funding in the constituency of Huntingdon during 2024/2025.

UK Sport, the government's arm's length body, provides funding for events and elite-level cycling on a nationwide basis rather than through constituency-specific allocations.

Sport England, the Government’s arms length body for grassroots sport, has invested £116,588 of funding in the constituency of Huntingdon during 2024/2025.

The Government remains committed to delivering major international sporting events with pride - building upon the UK’s global reputation for excellence in event delivery - and seeking new opportunities to do so.

Regarding the cyclo-cross event - in May I ensured a contact for British Cycling, who are in charge of bidding for these events, was shared with your office.

The Government is committed to increasing England’s tree canopy and woodland cover to at least 16.5% by 2050. This is supported by an interim target to achieve an increase of 0.33% of land area by December 2030 from the 2022 baseline of 14.9%.

The tree canopy and woodland cover metric is an aggregate indicator comprising a number of different datasets reporting both tree canopy gain and loss. A calibrated analysis of change in the indicator since 2022 is not yet available. However, updates to some of the individual datasets are available in part for some of these years and, in the case of Huntingdonshire, 16 hectares of new woodland were reported as planted between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2025, as well as 2,100 individual trees outside woodland that, in time would be expected to contribute a total of about 19 hectares of tree canopy and woodland cover towards the target.

The Forestry Commission is looking to develop regional advisory targets for forestry based on opportunities in the low sensitivity map for woodland creation to provide greater granularity in how the national target to increase tree canopy and woodland cover to 16.5% by 2050 could be achieved.

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question, but because it is a live planning application under independent examination, it is not possible for me to comment further. I obviously encourage him and his constituents to register with the Planning Inspectorate, if they have not done so already, so that they can share their views.

By now, the Secretary of State will be well aware of my opposition to the 1,900 acre East Park Energy solar farm in my constituency. We are now at the business end of the planning process; the application is before the Planning Inspectorate, ahead of a decision by the Secretary of State later this year. Will he outline roughly when he expects to have to take a decision on the application? Ahead of that, will he meet me and my hon. Friend the Member for North Bedfordshire (Richard Fuller) to discuss our concern that it is not the right solution for our area and our constituents?

Cambridgeshire’s staffing structures are a matter for the local authority, as is the impact assessment of any changes.

We are improving schools’ access to expert advice and support through the new Experts at Hand service, a £1.8 billion investment over three years designed to give mainstream schools rapid access to specialist special educational needs and disabilities expertise. The indicative funding for the 2026/27 financial year for Experts At Hand in Cambridgeshire is £4,675,232. Cambridgeshire local authority will work with its integrated care board to deliver this new service, which will support schools in the Huntingdon constituency.

At the Autumn Budget, we announced our commitment to delivering up to 250 Neighbourhood Health Centres (NHCs) by 2035, with around 120 centres in place by 2030.

As part of this commitment, we recently announced Wave 1 of our NHC schemes, with 27 sites across England selected to bring care closer to home 12 hours a day, six days a week, backed by £50 million. To support delivery nationally, we have now published the Neighbourhood health centre guidance for regions and integrated care boards and the Neighbourhood health centres: design and performance specification. These documents have been developed in close collaboration with colleagues across government, and together, they support regions and integrated care boards (ICBs) to further develop their neighbourhood health estate strategies and pipelines.

Nationwide coverage will take time, but we will start in the areas of greatest need where healthy life expectancy is lowest including rural towns and communities with higher deprivation levels and delivering healthcare closer to home for those that need it the most.

Wave 1 is just the beginning. We will build on this momentum to enable us to remain on track for our ambitious timetable to deliver new build NHCs by 2030.

We are supporting regions and ICBs to develop neighbourhood health estates strategies and future pipelines ahead of the 28 May NHC proposal deadline and encourage MPs to engage with their ICBs ahead of this deadline.

The figure of 19 void properties in May 2025 given in the Answer of 20 April 2026 to Question 125514 referred to void properties in the hon. Member's constituency which had been reacquired from Annington and that were not suitable for occupation; it did not reflect the total number of void properties.

As of 1 May 2025, there were a total of 108 void Service Family Accommodation (SFA) properties in the Huntingdon constituency.

As of 22 April 2026, there are a total of 98 void SFA properties in the Huntingdon constituency.

National Highways has commenced work to remove redundant biodegradable and plastic tree guards along the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon scheme. To date, around 36,000 redundant tree guards have been removed, and the work is expected to be completed by May 2026.

As at 13 April 2026, there are 99 void Service Family Accommodation properties in the Huntingdon constituency.

Grafham Water is 85% full with no concerns for water supplies in Huntingdon, but refill was delayed by high nitrate levels.

The Environment Agency continues to work with the water industry through the Asset Management Plan process and partnership projects so that appropriate catchment management and water treatment are in place to ensure that water supplies are safe and secure.

In the recent consultation ‘SEND reform: putting children and young people first’, the government proposed holding schools to account on how they will take meaningful steps to invest in inclusion through a published Inclusion Strategy.

On 25 March 2026, the department published the inclusive mainstream fund (IMF) methodology alongside best practice for schools. These documents provided detail on the requirement on schools to produce an Inclusion Strategy, along with information on how the IMF will be allocated to support schools’ inclusive practice. More information on how to produce an effective and ambitious Inclusion Strategy will be published soon.

Rectory Farm Cottage in Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire is a Grade II listed building (entry number 1309586 on the National Heritage List for England).

There is no specific duty on owners to keep their listed buildings in a good state of repair, but local authorities have powers to take action where a designated heritage asset has deteriorated to the extent that its preservation may be at risk.

Neither DCMS or our statutory heritage advisor Historic England, have received any information regarding the property or its current state of repair.