Written questions

542 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Passenger Standards Authority

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2025 to Question 73726 on Passenger Standards Authority, what is her expected timetable for the delivery of the Passenger Watchdog.

11 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice

HMP Bure: Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released in error from HMP Bure since July 2024.

4 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Crowborough Training Camp

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Wealden District Council have raised legal objections to the use of Crowborough Training Camp to house asylum seekers.

29 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Stamp Duty Land Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of levels of stamp duty on the housing market.

21 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of unemployment.

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Franchises

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether franchised bus networks in combined authorities are reliant on (a) emergency and (b) extraordinary Government funding support.

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Gambling: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral contribution of the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury to the question from the hon. Member for Doncaster Central South of 1 July 2025, Official Report, column 125 and her Department's do

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Freight

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the volume of freight transported by rail.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Freight

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress she has made in increasing rail freight growth.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Franchises

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has has discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential fiscal impacts of the long-term subsidy requirements of franchised bus networks.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has requested financial reporting from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority on the Bee Network since the 2019 assessment.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Franchises

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has set financial performance benchmarks that combined authorities must meet in order to access Government support for bus franchising.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Franchises

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has reviewed the long-term financial sustainability of franchised bus networks.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Franchises

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the value for money of Government funding provided to franchised bus networks.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the amount of Government funding required to sustain the Bee Network over the next five years.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much national grant funding she plans to provide to the Bee Network in 2025-26.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding her Department has provided to the Greater Manchester Bee Network since July 2024.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Franchises

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the amount of Council Tax revenue that has been raised to support franchised bus networks since July 2024.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Franchises

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has provided additional subsidy to franchised bus networks that were originally forecast to break even.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Franchises

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that lessons from the financial performance of the Bee Network are reflected in other areas seeking bus franchising powers.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Franchises

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the suitability of the Bee Network model as a template for wider bus franchising in other combined authorities.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much and what proportion of the Bee Network’s 2025-26 operating budget is funded by (a) the national grant, (b) local contributions, and (c) passenger revenues.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a tie-in period for newly qualified dentists on NHS dental patients in Norfolk.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of newly qualified dentists that will be required to ensure the future of NHS dentistry in the next five to ten years.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for publishing the dentistry budget.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new dentists have been given one-off welcome payments in (a) Broadland and (b) Norfolk in the last 12 months.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Midland Main Line: Electrification

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of pausing the Midland Mainline upgrade on (a) future East Midlands Railway regional fleet requirements and (b) planned Control Period 7 work.

24 Jun 2025 · Northern Ireland Office

Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to replace the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023.

9 May 2025 · Treasury

Domicil

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of ending the non-domiciled tax status on the financial sector.

9 May 2025 · Treasury

Domicil

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of ending the non-domiciled tax status on revenues to the Exchequer.

Source: official written-questions record.