Sarah Coombes

1 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Automatic Number Plate Recognition

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has provided for improving Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems in the last three years.

1 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Police: Automatic Number Plate Recognition

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent trends in levels of police (a) time and (b) resources used to investigate Automatic Number Plate Recognition camer

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking with National Trading Standards to tackle the sale of ghost number plates.

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Sandwell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to ensure that all schools in Sandwell are listing teaching jobs with a (a) main and (b) upper pay scale.

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to tackle the use of ghost number plates on public highways.

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of regulations governing the use of ghost number plates..

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates: Automatic Number Plate Recognition

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the number of ghost plates in circulation.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Taxis: Vehicle Number Plates

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with taxi licensing authorities on enforcement on illegal stealth number plates.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions her Department has had with the DVLA on 4D number plates.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislation to prevent the sale of novelty number plates.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the DVLA's Registered Number Plate Suppliers in preventing vehicle crime.

18 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of vehicle number plate cloning offences in the last five years.

18 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Automatic Number Plate Recognition

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Automatic Number Plate Recognition camera system.

17 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates: Automatic Number Plate Recognition

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with the DVLA on tackling the use of modified number plates designed to evade detection by automatic number plate recognition cameras, also known ghost plates.

17 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Vehicle Number Plates: Automatic Number Plate Recognition

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what number and proportion of vehicle number plates were unreadable by automatic number plate recognition cameras in each of the last three years.

17 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Vehicle Number Plates: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fixed penalty notices were issued for vehicle registration offences in each of the last three years.

17 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the use of modified number plates designed to evade detection by automatic number plate recognition cameras on levels of crime.

17 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates: Automatic Number Plate Recognition

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with relevant stakeholders on tackling the use of modified number plates designed to evade detection by automatic number plate recognition cameras, also known as ghost plates.

14 Jan 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress his Department has made on the roll-out of gigabit broadband (a) nationally and (b) in West Bromwich constituency.

14 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Resident Doctors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of resident doctor training positions.

17 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Walsall

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of funding provided by her Department to Steps to Work in Walsall through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Iron and Steel: Import Duties

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an estimate of the total costs incurred by businesses of steel safeguarding duties since the end of the UK-EU transition period.

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Iron and Steel: Antidumping Duties

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent discussions he has had with the the Chancellor of the Exchequer on retrospective steel safeguarding charges imposed on businesses.

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

Dangerous Driving: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many deaths were caused by illegal street racing incidents in the West Midlands in the last ten years.

16 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Dangerous Driving: West Bromwich

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle illegal street racing in West Bromwich constituency.

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Education

Truancy: Sandwell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of above average unauthorised absence rates on educational outcomes in Sandwell local authority area.

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Education

Pupils: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reduce persistent absences in primary and secondary schools in West Bromwich constituency.

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

Motor Insurance: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the extra cost of car insurance premiums faced by drivers from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

16 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

IVF: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of same-sex female couples are receiving NHS-funded IVF after undertaking six self-funded rounds of Intrauterine insemination as recommended by NICE.

16 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

IVF

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will make an assessment of the eligibility criteria for IVF on access to treatment for (a) single patients and (b) same-sex female couples.