Written questions

3,708 written questions tabled, most recent first.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether DVLA is making use of AI for (a) Automatic Number Plate Recognition and (b) supply of traffic enforcement data to local authorities.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic Control: Oxford

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2025 to Question 64502 on Road Traffic Control: Oxford, whether DVLA will be providing vehicle registration data to (a) Oxfordshire County Council and (b) Oxford City Council t

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the accessibility of booking driving tests.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Automation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to support the roll out of automated train operation technology on (a) rail, (b) light rail, (c) Tube and (d) metro lines.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Restoring Your Railway Fund

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the document entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, if she will publish the (a) equality impact assessment, (b) strategic environmental assessmen

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Airports: National Policy Statements

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2025 to Question HL9412 on Heathrow Airport: Planning Permission, what the provisional timetable is for the review of the Airports National Policy Statement; and what her plann

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Facilities Agreements

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance (a) Network Rail, (b) her Department and its agencies and (c) Great British Railways have produced on trade union facility time for railways staff.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Written Questions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to respond to Question 43120, tabled on 1 April 2025, on Honours: Forfeiture.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Street Trading: Westminster Bridge

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether ice cream vans parked on red lines on Westminster Bridge are monitored by the Government Secure Zone control room.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Aviation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of (a) overseas and (b) domestic Ministerial official flights by his Department are (i) carbon offset and (ii) use Sustainable Aviation Fuel.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Aviation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2025 to Question 62999 on Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Aviation, whether information on the (a) number and (b) cost of domestic flights

29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Military Aircraft: Ministers

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2025 to Question 31166 on Ministers: Aviation, how much air passenger duty has been paid for Prime Ministerial domestic travel on RAF-provided flights since 4 July 2024.

29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Military Aircraft: Ministers

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria are used for Ministers to fly on RAF Envoy for domestic flights.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Prime Minister: Aviation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2025 to Question 39576 on Prime Minister: Aviation, how many and what proportion of the Prime Minister's overseas flights used Sustainable Aviation Fuel since 4 July 2024.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that more customers can access pension pot consolidation more quickly.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2025 to Question 62771 on Cabinet Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution, if he will publish the invoice for that spending.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

c2c: Nationalisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of c2c's transfer to public ownership on levels of senior management and specialist operational expertise; how many such staff have left since the

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

c2c: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) punctuality, (b) reliability and (c) other quantified performance targets are for c2c Railway Limited under the Services Agreement with the Department for Transport; if she will publish those targe

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Ethics and Integrity Commission: Correspondence

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2025 to Question 65879 on Ethics and Integrity Commission: Correspondence, if he will publish correspondence from external organisations on the Ethics and Integrity Commission r

29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 29554 on Prison Accommodation, how many prison places were created as a result of crowding between (a) May 1997 and (b) 2010.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education

School Choice

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has issued guidance to local authorities in England on the impact of changes to VAT on independent schools on school places.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Buses and Large Goods Vehicles: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to respond to the consultation entitled Amendments to licensing restrictions: bus, coach and heavy goods vehicles, which closed on 5 June 2024.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

House of Lords Appointments Commission

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 66291 on House of Lords Appointments Commission, for what reason members of the Commission have not been appointed.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Arms Length Bodies: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2025 to Question 64566 on Arms Length Bodies, whether exempted expenditure will be published in one location; how it will be published; and when it will be published.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Disaster Relief and Emergencies: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2025 to Question 63336 on Disaster Relief and Emergencies: Equality, for what reason sex and gender are collated as separate indicators.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Cabinet Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2025 to Question 63330 on Cabinet Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution, on what date the event took place; where it took place; who attended; and what the cost of the event wa

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Committee on the Grant of Honours, Decorations and Medals

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason the Cabinet Secretary has delegated his attendance to the Main Honours Committee.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

10 Downing Street: Renewable Energy

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Downing Street uses renewable energy for its electricity.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

New Media Unit: Staff

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff work in the New Media Unit; and what the annual budget for that unit is.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Calder Conferences

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2025 to Question 64560 on Cabinet Office: Contracts, what venues have been booked through Calder Conferences since 4 July 2024; for what purpose; and at what cost.

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