Written questions
3,708 written questions tabled, most recent first.
11 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Driving under Influence: Testing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2025 to Question 86746 on Roads: Accidents, whether her Department has received requests from the Department for Transport for data on (a) drug and (b) drink drivi
11 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
London North Eastern Railway: Fares
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2025 to Question 85911 on Railways: Fares, what estimate she has made of the percentage of passengers travelling from (a) London, (b) York, (c) Newcastle and (d) Edinburgh w
11 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Food: Labelling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of mandatory calorie labelling on menus on (a) eating habits and (b) measures of health beyond calorie intake.
11 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Eating Disorders: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the increase in eating disorders among teenagers and young adults.
11 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Electric Vehicles: Grants
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) process and (b) indicative timeline is for changing the eligibility criteria for the Electric Car Grant scheme, including (i) consultation and (ii) implementation stages.
11 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether through the (a) Railways Bill and (b) the associated policy framework she plans to ensure that (i) regulatory oversight of the infrastructure manager’s periodic review and (ii) the setting of its perfor
10 Nov 2025 · Treasury
Bank Services: Post Offices
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to ensure that (a) charities, (b) churches, (c) voluntary organisations and (d) community groups are able to deposit cash into bank accounts via the Post Office without the need for (i) truste
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Driverless Vehicles: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether (a) screen-reader compatibility, (b) audio navigation cues, (c) wheelchair-accessible vehicles and (d) other accessibility features will be mandatory requirements for the licensing of autonomous passeng
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Driverless Vehicles: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to require companies (a) trialling and (b) operating autonomous vehicles to publish data on (i) vehicle miles travelled and (ii) collision incidents.
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Information Sharing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding the DVLA has received by providing vehicle registered keeper details in each of the last 10 years.
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fires: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the level of carbon emissions caused by (a) prescribed burns of vegetation and (b) wildfires during 2025.
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Great British Railways
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether powers given to Great British Railways to (a) design and (b) implement the (i) access, (ii) contracting and (iii) pricing regime would be subject to (A) regulatory oversight equivalent to the current fr
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Great British Railways: Freight
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to take steps to require that (a) Great British Railways and (b) any operator within Great British Railways cannot operate commercial freight services.
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to maintain the schedule 8 compensation mechanism for unplanned service disruption for operators outside Great British Railways.
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to maintain the schedule 4 compensation mechanism for planned service disruption for operators outside Great British Railways.
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Train Operating Companies: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether existing rail track access rights will (a) remain and (b) be unfettered by the introduction of (i) the Railways Bill and (ii) policies thereunder.
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Train Operating Companies: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the removal of track access charges by operators within Great British Railways on the (a) pricing, (b) access and (c) general operations of (i) non-nation
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish the total spending by her Department on (a) rail reform and (b) the formation of Great British Railways since 4 July 2025.
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Great British Railways: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish the number of (a) civil servants from the Department of Transport, (b) civil servants from other Government departments, (c) employees from Network Rail and (d) employees from other public a
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Great British Railways
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to publish Great British Railway’s (a) Access and Use Policy and (b) Draft Licence.
5 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Freight: Fuels
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the relative operational cost increases for (a) rail freight and (b) road freight during the period from 2011 when fuel duty was first frozen for HGVs.
5 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Freight
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what protections exist to protect land and operations afforded to rail freight from (a) the risks of redevelopment and (b) other legal and commercial challenges; and what assessment she has made of the adequacy
5 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate she has made of the potential impact of (a) her rail reform policies and (b) the establishment of Great British Railways on costs to the public purse.
5 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many civil servants are working on rail reform.
5 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Freight
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions (a) she and (b) the Minister for Rail has had with the rail freight industry on the Railways Bill.
5 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Great British Railways
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to publish a (a) draft licence for Great British Railways and (b) consultation on the licence terms.
5 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Great British Railways
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to publish a (a) draft access and usage policy for Great British Railways and (b) consultation for this policy.
5 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Electric Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much (a) their Department and (b) its arm’s length bodies have spent on (i) installing electric vehicle charging facilities and (ii) purchasing electric vehicles since 4 July 2024; and what estimate
5 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence: Electric Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much (a) their Department and (b) its arm’s length bodies have spent on (i) installing electric vehicle charging facilities and (ii) purchasing electric vehicles since 4 July 2024; and what estimate their Dep
5 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Electric Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much (a) their Department and (b) its arm’s length bodies have spent on (i) installing electric vehicle charging facilities and (ii) purchasing electric vehicles since 4
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