Mr Richard Holden

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Tickets

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the press notice entitled Your chance to try simpler train tickets in Yorkshire and the East Midlands this September, published on 6 June 2025, how many passengers have volunteered to particip

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average waiting time for a practical car driving test was in (a) each of the 12 months before 5 July 2024 and (b) each month since that date.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the number of bus journeys for which passengers have paid a fare between £2 and £3 since 5 July 2024.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish (a) the benefit–cost ratio assessments undertaken for the proposed Manchester Piccadilly HS2 station options and (b) any associated operational assessments commissioned by (i) HS2 Ltd and (i

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Passenger Watchdog will be (a) responsible for issuing passenger performance standards, (b) involved in drafting and publishing those standards before Great British Railways becomes operational; and

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Great British Railways: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans her Department has for the number of staff working for Great British Rail in each of the next 10 years; and over what time frame they will be hired.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) stations, (b) tracks, (c) passengers and (d) fareboxes will not be run by Great British Rail.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Alternative Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department’s press release entitled Greener flights ahead for UK aviation, published on 1 January 2025, what estimate her Department has made of the additional cost per passenger flight of

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Motorcycles: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to her Department’s press release entitled £120 million to roll-out more electric vans, taxis and motorbikes, published on 25 February 2025, what estimate she has made of the annual number of motorbike

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Driving Licences: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the press release entitled Digital driving licence coming this year, published on 21 January 2025, what the commencement date is for the pilot of the mobile driver's l

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Land

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many planning permissions for new homes on surplus railway land have been granted since 5 July 2024.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department’s press release entitled More than £1.1 billion investment to boost growth, jobs and skills in UK’s coastal towns and cities, published on 15 September 2025, how much and what p

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Biofuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department press release entitled Boost for British green aviation fuel production to support jobs and lift off emerging industry, published on 14 May 2025, how much of the (a) £400,000 an

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding her Department has allocated to (a) road maintenance and (b) pothole repairs in each year since 2022; and what the total amount is allocated over that period.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Parking: Automatic Number Plate Recognition

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what representations her Department has received from local authorities and parking operators on the use of automatic number plate recognition in municipal car parks since 4 July

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many public electric vehicle chargepoints have been installed in each local authority area in England; and what assessment she has made of the level of regional difference in access to charging infrastructu

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of the government’s target to deliver 300,000 public electric vehicle chargepoints by 2030 is dependent on private sector investment.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total amount of public funding committed to electric vehicle charging infrastructure to date is; and what estimate her Department has made of the average cost per operational public chargepoint deliver

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of the 300,000 public chargepoints required by 2030 that will come from the installation of the 100,000 local chargepoints announced on 13 June 2025.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the announcement of 13 June 2025 on the installation of over 100,000 new local electric vehicle chargepoints in England, what her planned timetable is for this; and how many have been installe

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of public electric vehicle chargepoints that will be installed in each year between 2025 and 2030.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the resilience of Britain’s rail network to prolonged periods of dry weather, in the context of ongoing speed restrictions and service reductions on routes including the W

10 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Rolling Stock: Leasing

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office for National Statistics classifies rolling stock leasing liabilities as part of the public sector balance sheet.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to introduce (a) a similar scheme to the Great British Rail Sale of April 2022 and (b) other national discounted ticketing initiatives when Great British Railways assumes full respo

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to use discounted ticketing initiatives to (a) increase passenger utilisation on lightly used services and (b) reduce the volume of trains operating with significant spare capacity

16 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Freedom of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the FOI response Ref: FOI-00045627, if she will publish that response.

16 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Motorcycles: Bus Lanes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2025 to Question 59359 on Motorcycles: Bus Lanes, how many respondents responded to the consultation on allowing motorcycles to access bus lanes by default; and what number of

16 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Parking: Automatic Number Plate Recognition

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what representations his Department has received on the use of ANPR in municipal car parks since 4 July 2024.

16 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Automation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2025 to Question 71256 on Railways: Automation, if she will make it her policy to link government investment to conditions on greater take-up of automated train operation t

16 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Ministers' Private Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2025 to Question 71268 on Department for Transport: Ministers' Private Offices, what the expenditure of £2,769.49 was on; and if she will provide a breakdown of each item o