Written questions

3,708 written questions tabled, most recent first.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with police forces on illegal plates or cloned license plates and serious organised crime; and what steps she is taking with police forces to help tackle the use of illegal or clone

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to amend the penalty regime to (a) make non-compliant number plates offences endorsable with up to six penalty points and (b) increase the fixed penalty fine for such offences from £100 to £1

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Great British Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was for commissioning or licensing material from Dovetail Games for use in promotional content relating to the Great British Railways branding, including the computer-generated

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Great British Railways: Marketing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2025 to Question 92061 on Great British Railways, whether her Department has now produced (a) costed rollout plans for the Great British Railways logo and (b) estimated exp

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Budget 2025, published on 28 November 2025, HC 1492, from which financial year she plans to meet her target to fix an additional one million potholes each year.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2025 to Question 82988 on Bicycles: Infrastructure, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of floating bus stops on independent access to bus services for blin

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of removing interest charges from student loans for UK nationals on costs to the public purse.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the annual cost is of providing student loan financing to students who are not UK citizens; and whether she has made an estimate of the potential impact of restricting student loan eligibility to British c

15 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS England: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2025 to Question 92091 on NHS England: Carbon Emissions, what estimate has been made of the cost to the NHS of delivering the net zero targets; and whether tho

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2025 to Question 94307 on Railways: Private Sector, what metrics her Department plans to use to measure the potential impact of the Railways Bill on levels of private sector

15 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Cars: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2025 to Question 94796 on Cars: Taxation, whether a weight-based system of vehicle taxation for cars is under consideration by her Department.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Facilities Agreements

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2025 to Question 94308 on Railways: Facilities Agreements, when the updated Framework Document is expected to be published.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2025 to Question 95727 on Driving Instruction: Staff, how many civilian driving tests the 36 defence driving examiners are expected to conduct over the 12-month support peri

8 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

British Transport Police: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2025 to Question 86754 on Railways: Industrial Disputes and 2 December 2025 to Question 93782 on British Transport Police: Industrial Disputes, if she will make an assessmen

8 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic Control: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2025 to Question 60138 on Road Traffic Control: Finance, whether she is providing central support for congestion improvement measures.

5 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the net fiscal cost of freezing rail prices in each of the next five years.

5 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of the rail fare freeze.

5 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Overseas Territories: Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, in light of the recent ruling on 51Job, Inc. by the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, what steps she is taking to ensure that Overseas Territory courts comply with Privy Cou

5 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Cayman Islands and China: Investment and Pension Funds

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the recent ruling on 51Job, Inc. by the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, what steps he is taking to ensure that Cayman Islands institutions have the (a) c

5 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Cayman Islands: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to help ensure that British investors and pension funds are not prevented from challenging harmful actions by Chinese actors in Cayman Isl

5 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Glioblastoma: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what potential new treatments for glioblastoma have been trialled in the NHS.

4 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Rolling Stock: Leasing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she expects the Office for National Statistics to (a) determine a timescale for its review of rolling stock leasing agreements and (b) identify which leases or train operating companies will form part of t

4 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 November 2025 to Question 86957 on Bus Services: Concessions, whether the Government has made an assessment of the financial sustainability of expanding the English National Concessi

4 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates: Valuation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether, following the Government’s decision to abolish the Valuation Office Agency and transfer its functions into HM Revenue and Customs, she plans to maintain the current Valuation Office Agency methodology for a

4 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Staff

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2025 to WPQ 69365, if he will publish a list of the changes made between the previous published version of the framework and the new version published on 16 June 2025.

4 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Great British Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the proposed advisory role of the Office of Rail and Road under the Railways Bill in providing independent scrutiny of Great British Railways’ annual and five-yea

4 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Buses and Large Goods Vehicles: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2025 to Question 71238 on Buses and Large Goods Vehicles: Licensing, whether her Department has now concluded its consideration of next steps following the consultation ent

4 Dec 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Shipping: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to expand the UK Emissions Trading Scheme to cover international shipping.

4 Dec 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Hydrogen: Production

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the UK’s current regulatory framework for supporting cleaner hydrogen production for industrial sites.

4 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Refineries: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including oil refining within the UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.

Source: official written-questions record.