Matt Vickers

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps are being taken to help reduce flight delays at regional airports.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans there are to improve safety measures on rural A-roads with higher-than-average collision rates.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Active Travel: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of active-travel funding allocations to local authorities.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment has been made of the reliability of regional rail services serving the North East.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Video Games: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to increase digital skills within the video-games sector.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Investment Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Youth Investment Fund in improving community facilities.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Arts: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to increase participation in creative apprenticeships in the North East.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the resilience of local sports clubs in the context of energy prices.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Cultural Heritage: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support is being provided to heritage sites affected by severe weather and coastal erosion.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Broadcasting

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions have taken place with broadcasters on improving access to live sports coverage for people without subscription services.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Arts: Exports

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps are being taken to promote British creative sector exports over the next three years.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment has been made of regional disparities in access to elite sports pathways.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Museums and Galleries: Economic Growth

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate her Department has made of the potential contribution of independent museums to local economic growth.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Culture: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress her Department has made on expanding access to youth cultural programmes in areas with historically low participation.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Theatre: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support regional theatres with operational costs.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the distribution of grassroots sports funding between urban and coastal towns.

13 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ground Rent

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made a recent estimate of the market value of properties subject to a ground rent of more than £250 in each of the last five years.

13 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ground Rent

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of properties whose ground rent has been raised to over £250 each year, in the last five years.

11 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average waiting time was for a practical driving test at driving test centres in (a) Darlington, (b) Middlesbrough (c) Hartlepool,(d) Northallerton and (e) England in the latest period for which data i

11 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ground Rent

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number of long leases that have been turned into Assured Shorthold Tenancies because their ground rent was increased to more than £25

11 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ground Rent

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number of leases that have been forfeited because the leaseholder fell into ground rent arrears of 3 months in each of the last five

3 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hazardous Substances: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the Environment Agency on the regulation of hazardous waste storage at industrial sites in Teesside.

3 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Industrial Waste: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the availability of permitted landfill capacity for industrial waste in the North East.

3 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Landfill Tax: Waste Management

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of reforms to the Landfill Tax on businesses engaged in environmentally-responsible waste (a) treatment and (b) recycling.

3 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Landfill Tax: Tees Valley

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of recent changes to Landfill Tax rates on chemical manufacturing operations in Teesside.

3 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Deportation and Repatriation: Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many number payments were made to people (i) deported and (ii) voluntarily returned under Home Office schemes since July 2024; and what the value of those payments were.

3 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Deportation: Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of deported individuals received financial assistance to leave since July 2024.

3 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms are in place to recover public funds from people who return to the UK unlawfully after receiving financial support to leave.

3 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Offenders: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on funding for (a) voluntary and (b) enforced removal schemes of foreign national offenders in the 2025-26 financial year.

3 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Deportation and Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) voluntary return and (b) deportation schemes since July 2024.