Written questions

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...