Moorland: Fires
Commons · Question 7288 · Tabled 4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Paul Davies
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department provides funding to local councils to enforce the ban on the use of barbecues and open fires on the moors during the summer.
Answer
Answered by Jim McMahon, 14 Oct 2024
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government provides no specific funding to local councils to enforce the ban on the use of barbecues and open fires on moorland. The majority of the Local Government Finance Settlement is unringfenced in ackn...