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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance her Department has issued to local highway authorities on street works licensing and liability for cross-pavement electric vehicle charging channels.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance her Department has issued to local highway authorities on street works licensing and liability for cross-pavement electric vehicle charging channels.
In December 2024, the Government published cross-pavement guidance to help local authorities understand what to consider for the rollout of cross-pavement solutions. This includes relevant planning permissions, minimum existing standards, and responsibilities.
The Electric Vehicle Pavement Channel Grant was also facilitated by guidance on how to plan, procure and install cross-pavement solutions, as well as case studies from successful local authority installations. It is available to all local authorities on an online portal alongside a comprehensive range of guidance on all aspects of electric vehicle infrastructure deployment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to publish further guidance to local authorities on integrating cross-pavement charging into wider electric vehicle infrastructure strategies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to publish further guidance to local authorities on integrating cross-pavement charging into wider electric vehicle infrastructure strategies.
In December 2024, the Government published cross-pavement guidance to help local authorities understand what to consider for the rollout of cross-pavement solutions. The Electric Vehicle Pavement Channel Grant was also facilitated by a blueprint document with guidance on how to plan, procure and install a cross-pavement solution in line with local authorities’ wider electric vehicle strategies. It is available on an online portal which all local authorities have access to alongside a comprehensive range of guidance on all aspects of electric vehicle infrastructure and deployment. The need for further guidance is kept under review.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions officials in her Department have had with the Department for Transport on the future of the Electric Vehicle Pavement Channels Grant beyond the 2025–26 financial year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions officials in her Department have had with the Department for Transport on the future of the Electric Vehicle Pavement Channels Grant beyond the 2025–26 financial year.
The Electric Vehicle Pavement Channels Grant was a one-year allocation to all Tier 1 local authorities in England to support local authorities to adopt pavement channels as part of their local charging solutions. 83 local authorities were approved for funding. The Government continues to support local authorities to deliver their schemes and requires quarterly reporting where grant funding has been provided to support progress.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure funding allocated to combined authorities for infrastructure schemes, including electric vehicle charging, is passed on to and spent by constituent local authorities in a timely manner.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure funding allocated to combined authorities for infrastructure schemes, including electric vehicle charging, is passed on to and spent by constituent local authorities in a timely manner.
The Local EV Infrastructure (LEVI) Fund supports local authorities to install at least 100,000 chargers. At Budget 2025, the Government announced £100 million further resource funding for local authorities to support delivery. Local Authorities in receipt of LEVI allocations update the Department for Transport on a quarterly basis, including progress and spend on electric vehicle infrastructure installations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of local government reorganisation, including the creation of new unitary authorities and combined authorities, on the delivery of electric vehicle charging infrastructure schemes at local level.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of local government reorganisation, including the creation of new unitary authorities and combined authorities, on the delivery of electric vehicle charging infrastructure schemes at local level.
The Local EV Infrastructure (LEVI) Fund supports local authorities to install at least 100,000 chargers. At Budget 2025, the Government announced £100 million further resource funding for local authorities to support delivery. Local Authorities in receipt of LEVI allocations update the Department for Transport on a quarterly basis, including progress and spend on electric vehicle infrastructure installations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many local authorities declined to apply for the Electric Vehicle Pavement Channels Grant in the 2025–26 financial year, and what assessment her Department has made of the reasons for non-participation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many local authorities declined to apply for the Electric Vehicle Pavement Channels Grant in the 2025–26 financial year, and what assessment her Department has made of the reasons for non-participation.
The Electric Vehicle Pavement Channel Grant was allocated to all Tier 1 local authorities in England. 83 local authorities applied for funding with 19 opting out. Local authorities were not asked to provide reasoning for not applying, but feedback has included misalignment with local strategies, a focus on active travel, and practical considerations such as maintenance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of local authorities' capacity to deliver cross-pavement electric vehicle charging schemes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of local authorities' capacity to deliver cross-pavement electric vehicle charging schemes.
The Government made up to £25 million available to local authorities in England to support thousands of residents without off-street parking to conveniently charge their vehicles at home.
Local authorities are supported through the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Support Body, which provides technical, commercial and management expertise to help local authorities develop and deliver their electric vehicle infrastructure projects. Local authorities have also received capability funding to help secure dedicated in-house expertise to plan and deliver on local electric vehicle infrastructure strategies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of differing levels of local authority uptake of cross-pavement charging schemes on geographic differences in the affordability of home electric vehicle charging.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of differing levels of local authority uptake of cross-pavement charging schemes on geographic differences in the affordability of home electric vehicle charging.
The Government is committed to accelerating the rollout of affordable and accessible charging infrastructure. The £25 million Electric Vehicle Pavement Channel Grant (EVPCG) was allocated to all local authorities across England and was taken up across all regions.
The EVPCG supports the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund which is expected to deliver another 100,000 public chargers close to people’s homes across England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of households without access to off-street parking, and in what way this factors into the Government's electric vehicle uptake targets under the Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of households without access to off-street parking, and in what way this factors into the Government's electric vehicle uptake targets under the Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate.
The 2024 English Housing Survey notes that around a third of households in England do not have access to off-street parking. To support these households, the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Fund supports local authorities in England to work with industry and transform the availability of electric vehicle charging for drivers without off-street parking alongside substantial private investment. Charge point deployment is a key enabling measure to support the electric vehicle transition.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of funding for cross-pavement electric vehicle charging infrastructure in enabling households without off-street parking to access home charging.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of funding for cross-pavement electric vehicle charging infrastructure in enabling households without off-street parking to access home charging.
Substantial funding has been made available to support cross-pavement electric vehicle charging. This includes £25 million allocated to English local authorities last financial year alongside capability funding to help those authorities plan and deliver on local electric vehicle infrastructure strategies. Residents with cross pavement solutions can also benefit from up to £500 towards a home charger through the Electric Vehicle Charge Point Grant for Households with On-street Parking.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to evaluate the implementation of age-appropriate suicide prevention and mental health education within Relationships, Sex and Health Education in schools; and what support is available to schools to ensure staff deliver that content safely.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to evaluate the implementation of age-appropriate suicide prevention and mental health education within Relationships, Sex and Health Education in schools; and what support is available to schools to ensure staff deliver that content safely.
The statutory relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) curriculum includes content on mental wellbeing, resilience, recognising signs of poor mental health, and how to access support. Schools are responsible for determining how this content is taught in an age-appropriate manner and for ensuring staff are appropriately supported. We have been clear that schools should consult mental health professionals and put in place high quality, evidence-based staff training before addressing suicide directly with secondary aged pupils, to ensure that staff have the knowledge and skills to do it safely.
We do not monitor provision of RSHE, but the subjects are considered in Ofsted inspections under the personal development judgement. Inspectors make a professional judgement on whether the school is providing appropriate and effective teaching and delivering against the requirements in the RSHE statutory guidance.
More broadly, the department is investing in mental health support for children and young people through measures including Mental Health Support Teams and senior mental health lead training.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her department’s priorities are for this parliamentary session.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her department’s priorities are for this parliamentary session.
The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
What steps she is taking to ban conversion therapy.
What steps she is taking to ban conversion therapy.
If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the implementation of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy is coordinated across relevant Government departments; and whether he plans to publish a framework for measuring progress against the Strategy's objectives.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the implementation of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy is coordinated across relevant Government departments; and whether he plans to publish a framework for measuring progress against the Strategy's objectives.
We are committed to delivering the five-year cross-Government Suicide Prevention Strategy, which sets out over 100 actions across the Government and the sector to reduce the number of lives lost to suicide. The strategy was designed to be iterative, and we will continue to consider where further action can be taken most effectively.
The Department regularly engages with cross-Government counterparts and monitors progress against the strategy’s actions to save lives, improve support for people who self-harm, and improve support for those bereaved by suicide.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to encourage employers to adopt evidence-based workplace suicide prevention practices and standards to improve employee wellbeing and reduce suicide risk.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to encourage employers to adopt evidence-based workplace suicide prevention practices and standards to improve employee wellbeing and reduce suicide risk.
The Government’s National Suicide Prevention Strategy is the responsibility of the Department of Health and Social Care for England. Wales and Scotland have their own national strategies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what mechanisms are in place to identify, evaluate and disseminate examples of effective suicide prevention practice developed by voluntary, community and public sector organisations across England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what mechanisms are in place to identify, evaluate and disseminate examples of effective suicide prevention practice developed by voluntary, community and public sector organisations across England.
The voluntary, community, and social enterprise sector plays a vital role in suicide prevention and supporting people at risk of suicide.
Between 2023 and 2025, the Department funded the Suicide Prevention Grant Fund, which supported voluntary and community sector organisations to deliver suicide prevention initiatives for higher-risk groups. The programme included evaluation of funded projects to improve understanding of effective approaches and inform future policy development. We will continue to engage closely with those organisations, and use learning from their programmes, to support delivery of the Suicide Prevention Strategy.
That this House congratulates St Paul’s Church in Harrogate on celebrating its 150th anniversary; recognises the church’s long and proud history, having begun as a preaching station in 1875 before becoming a sanctioned charge in 1876; celebrates the generations of ministers, members and volunteers whose dedication has sustained St Paul’s and its congregation over the past 150 years; further recognises the important role the church has played in bringing the local community together, through social groups, societies, fundraising and support for those in need; notes that during the war years a Ladies’ Sewing Society was formed to send parcels to members on active service; further notes the thriving community life of the church in the early twentieth century, including its badminton group and regular Women’s Missionary and Literary Society meetings; also recognises the generations of Harrogate residents who have found friendship and community at St Paul’s; and wishes St Paul’s Church every success as it looks ahead to the next 150 years.
That this House congratulates St Paul’s Church in Harrogate on celebrating its 150th anniversary; recognises the church’s long and proud history, having begun as a preaching station in 1875 before becoming a sanctioned charge in 1876; celebrates the generations of ministers, members and volunteers whose dedication has sustained St Paul’s...
That this House celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Knaresborough Festival of Entertainment and Visual Arts (FEVA), recognising that the festival first began in 1996 before being rebranded as FEVA in 2001; notes that over three decades it has become one of North Yorkshire's most cherished community festivals, bringing together performers, artists, volunteers and visitors in celebration of arts, culture and community; recognises that FEVA is a constituted not-for-profit organisation run entirely by a dedicated team of volunteers whose passion and commitment have helped sustain this much-loved annual event; commends the wide-ranging programme of music, theatre, visual arts, spoken word, family activities, street entertainment, open-air performances, exhibitions and community events that showcase the extraordinary talent and creativity of Knaresborough; further notes the important role FEVA has played in strengthening community spirit, supporting local artists, attracting visitors and helping to put Knaresborough firmly on the map as a vibrant cultural destination; and wishes everyone involved in FEVA every success for its 30th anniversary celebrations and for many years to come.
That this House celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Knaresborough Festival of Entertainment and Visual Arts (FEVA), recognising that the festival first began in 1996 before being rebranded as FEVA in 2001; notes that over three decades it has become one of North Yorkshire's most cherished community festivals, bringing together...
That this House congratulates Jespers of Harrogate on its 125th anniversary; notes that the business was founded in 1901 by Foster Barrett Jesper as a hand engraving workshop on Prospect Crescent, undertaking commission work for London jewellers, the Royal Family and major sporting and business institutions; recognises that during the Second World War Dennis Jesper and chief machinist Jack Elsworth signed the Official Secrets Act to produce engraved control panels for the Allies' early radar systems; further notes that the business grew under four generations of the Jesper family into one of the UK's premier independent stationery, art supplies and office supplies retailers, winning UK Retail Stationer of the Year in 1991; acknowledges that since 2019 the store has been in the custodianship of the Vickers family, who have committed to preserving its character and securing its future on Harrogate's high street; celebrates the anniversary festivities taking place this September, culminating in a special evening event on Thursday 10 September; pays tribute to its dedicated staff, including manager Lynne Cummings, who has served the store for 32 years; and believes that Jespers' 125-year story of resilience through two world wars, the rise of the internet and the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrates that independent retail and the British high street can continue to thrive.
That this House congratulates Jespers of Harrogate on its 125th anniversary; notes that the business was founded in 1901 by Foster Barrett Jesper as a hand engraving workshop on Prospect Crescent, undertaking commission work for London jewellers, the Royal Family and major sporting and business institutions; recognises that during the...