Written questions

698 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Road Signs and Markings: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish a list of locations with enforceable School Keep Clear road markings in each local authority area.

3 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to include the safety of road workers in its Road Safety strategy.

1 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Road Works: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the system of recording abuse against roadworkers.

30 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her Department's planned timetable is for reviewing the national wildfire framework.

30 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating standardised wildfire (a) definitions and (b) recording protocols.

27 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Optical Fibres

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's press notice entitled On track and online: landmark deal to end mobile dead zones, published 26 June 2025, if she will publish the location of the rail lines due to get improv

27 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Mobile Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's press release entitled On track and online: landmark deal to end mobile dead zones, published on 26 June, if she will list the locations of the 57 tunnels due to receive impro

27 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost of a practical driving test was in each year since 1995.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Museums and Galleries and Theatres

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to increase opportunities for people to visit (a) theatres, (b) galleries and (c) museums.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Motor Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Transport on tackling non-exhaust emissions from road transport as a source of particulate pollution.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Litter

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help tackle the sources of littering in (a) Bedfordshire and (b) England.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Business: Summertime

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits for businesses of adopting Single/Double Summer Time.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: 5G

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to roll out rail-5g.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the existing regulatory framework for open access rail operators.

16 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Lobsters: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department’s policy is on the transportation of live lobsters through (a) postal and (b) courier services within the UK.

16 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a centralised portal for guidance on registering local bus services in areas where (a) the traffic commissioner registers the

16 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Traffic Commissioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps to introduce formal tribunal rules for traffic commissioner tribunal functions.

16 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Droughts: Tree Planting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of (a) recent trends in the level of drought and (b) the potential impact of drought on his Department's tree-planting plans.

16 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Anti-social Behaviour: Driving

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Justice on tackling anti-social car driving.

16 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) update and (b) improve NHS IT systems.

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Parking

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing local transport authorities to compel highways authorities to provide parking provision for shared mobility schemes.

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to bring forward regulations under section 141A of the Transport Act 2000 to improve the collection of centrally held data on local coach journeys.

12 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Crime: East of England

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of rural crime in (a) Bedfordshire and (b) the East of England; and what steps her Department is taking to reduce that level.

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: East of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of rail infrastructure schemes in the East of England on regional economic growth.

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children who will become eligible for free school meals following the extension to households in receipt of Universal Credit in (a) Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard con

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

Allotments

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on increasing the provision of land for food-growing allotments.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Franchises

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Setting up a bus franchising scheme: December 2024, published in December 2024, whether a local transport authority is permitted to use surplus revenue gener

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Lobsters: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an estimate of the number of live lobsters being (a) posted and (b) couriered in 2024.

3 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure improved integration between (a) bus and (b) rail services through the Integrated National Transport Strategy.

3 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicles: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to publish a roadmap for the (a) uptake and (b) deployment of zero emission heavy goods vehicles.

Source: official written-questions record.