Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 7288

Moorland: Fires

Tabled: 4 October 2024
Answered: 14 October 2024

Question

Paul Davies

LabourColne Valley

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

Jim McMahon
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...

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