Written questions

698 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of road traffic incidents in which unrestrained pets have caused (a) injury to vehicle occupants, (b) difficulty for emergency services accessing vehicl

4 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of trends in current levels of concessionary bus travel usage.

4 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Active Travel: Electric Scooters

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the decision to extend UK e-scooter rental trials until 2028 on (a) private and (b) public funding of active travel infrastructure.

4 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Lost Property

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Great British Railways will introduce a centralised lost property system across the rail network.

4 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Mobile Phones: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent the resale of stolen mobile phones in (a) Bedfordshire, (b) Cambridgeshire and (c) Suffolk.

3 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Car Sharing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of giving National Highways a remit to increase the efficiency of motorways and major A roads by incentivising increasing the number of people in a car.

3 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Trusts: Official Cars

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing NHS trusts to reduce mileage reimbursement to incentivise use of pool vehicles.

29 Aug 2025 · Home Office

Crime Prevention: Urban Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what evaluation framework is used to measure the effectiveness of the Safer Streets Summer Initiative.

29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Crimes of Violence: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions for assault on public-facing workers under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 have involved roadworkers; and what assessment she has made of the impact of that provision on se

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tourist Attractions: Animals

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of existing regulatory frameworks governing travel companies that market or sell tickets to animal-based tourist attractions.

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

Canals: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many miles of canal have been closed for navigation due to water shortages in 2025.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

DfT Operator: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of staff working in DfT Operator were women as of the end of July 2025.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

DfT Operator: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of staff working in DfT Operator were in their immediately previous role (a) working in the civil service (b) working in the private sector.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full time equivalent staff were working in her Department as of the end of July 2025.

21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Measles: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with Integrated Care Boards on (a) increasing vaccination rates for and (b) prevention of measles.

21 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Health and Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on average cab temperatures on buses in periods of hot weather; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of average cab temperatures on the health of bus

21 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Poultry: Animal Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with animal welfare organisations on the potential merits of phasing out the use of enriched cages for laying hens.

21 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Poultry: Animal Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of the introduction of bans on enriched cages for laying hens in European countries.

21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Retail Trade: Urban Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to encourage local authorities to undertake high street rental auctions.

21 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Blue Badge Scheme: Patients

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending eligibility for Blue Badges to include voluntary patient transport providers.

17 Jul 2025 · House of Commons Commission

Parliamentary Estate: Windows

To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, when the external windows were last cleaned on (a) Norman Shaw South, (b) Portcullis House and (c) Richmond House.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Fireworks: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent progress he has made on consulting animal welfare organisations on the review of fireworks legislation.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Summertime: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of moving to (a) single and (b) double summer time on cumulative carbon emissions.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Hire Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the report entitled Annual Shared Micromobility Report 2024 published by CoMoUK.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Schemes Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact the Pension Schemes Bill on the savings of people in (a) Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard constituency and (b) East of England.

10 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic Offences: Fixed Penalties

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is considering taking steps to reform the escalation process for Penalty Charge Notices in cases where the original notice was for a minor offence and was not received by the registered k

10 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

First Aid: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve the provision of basic life support education in schools.

10 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fish Farming: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to introduce species-specific requirements for the slaughter of farmed fish.

10 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Animal Experiments: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of transferring responsibility for the licensing of animal testing to the (a) Department for Environment, Food and Rural

10 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Understanding Animal Research

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many arm’s-length bodies provided funding to Understanding Animal Research in the 2024–25 financial year, broken down by the amount of funding provided by each body.

Source: official written-questions record.