Written questions
542 written questions tabled, most recent first.
9 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
Department for Transport: Departmental Responsibilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made changes to the membership of the Road Transport Group since 4 July 2024.
9 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
Department for Transport: Departmental Responsibilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made changes to the membership of the Major Rail Projects Group since 4 July 2024.
9 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
Department for Transport: Departmental Responsibilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made changes to the membership of the Rail Services Group since 4 July 2024.
9 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
Train Operating Companies: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to implement key performance indicators to measure the performance of rail operators after franchises have expired.
9 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
Bus Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to bring forward a Buses Bill.
9 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
HGV Parking and Driver Welfare Grant Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding remains available through the HGV parking and driver welfare grant scheme.
9 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
Aviation Accessibility Task and Finish Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has appointed additional members to the Aviation Accessibility Task and Finish Group.
9 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
Bypasses: Tameside
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when her Department projects that the A57 link road upgrade will be completed.
9 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
Railways: North of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when her Department projects that the Transpennine Route Upgrade will be completed.
9 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
Department for Transport: Cost Effectiveness
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will create a value for money team.
21 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number of (a) employees working in the private school bus services sector and (b) privately contracted buses used by local authorities for school bus services.
31 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Horizon IT System: Compensation and Public Inquiries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to paragraph 4.91 of the Autumn Budget 2024, what proportion of the additional funding will be used to (a) administer the compensation scheme and (b) fund the public inquiry.
22 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Horizon IT System: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the cost of replacing the Post Office Horizon IT system.
22 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Horizon IT System
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the response to issues arising from the failures of the Horizon IT System on his Department's capacity to deal with other issues.
22 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Horizon IT System
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of her Department’s full time equivalent staff have been allocated to working on its response to failures of the Horizon Post Office IT system in each month of the last two
22 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what evidence she has seen of financial services regulators adapting their approach as a result of the secondary objective on international competitiveness and economic growth.
22 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that financial services regulators fulfil their obligations under their secondary objective on international competitiveness and economic growth.
18 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Horizon IT System: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of convicted postmasters has her Department contacted to inform them that their conviction has been quashed under the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024.
15 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Employment Rights Bill
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when he plans to publish the impact assessment for the Employment Rights Bill.
9 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Admissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of introducing means-testing for the Winter Fuel Payment on hospital admissions.
4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Horizon IT System: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many full-time civil servants are working on informing postmasters and former postmasters that their conviction has been quashed under the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024.
4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Solar Power: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it is her policy that there is to be a presumption against planning permission for solar farms that are not nationally significant infrastructure projects on best and mos
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Horizon IT System: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many civil servants are working only on compensation for postmasters.
10 Sep 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Post Offices: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many full-time civil servants are working on compensation for postmasters.
10 Sep 2024 · Treasury
Business: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when her Department plans to publish a business tax roadmap.
10 Sep 2024 · Treasury
Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of the rate of the business rates multiplier in (a) England and (b) Wales.
10 Sep 2024 · Treasury
Small Businesses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the burden of business rates on small and medium-sized businesses.
9 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Horizon IT System: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many letters informing postmasters and former postmasters that their conviction has been quashed under the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024 her Department has sent.
4 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Horizon IT System: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many subpostmasters had their convictions quashed as a result of the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act.
4 Sep 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Nuclear Power: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has met with the Secretary of State for Education to discuss the development of skills needed for the growth of the nuclear sector.
Source: official written-questions record.