Written questions

698 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Shellfish: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish best practice guidance for the transport of live decapod crustaceans.

11 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Shellfish: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to end the sale of live decapod crustaceans.

11 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: North Sea

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what progress his Department has made on the implementation of the Declarations between the UK and North Seas countries at the North Sea Summit in April 2023.

11 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Taxis: VAT

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will have discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the adequacy of the level of VAT charged on fares for (a) demand responsive transport and (b) other public transport services that use privat

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Buses and Large Goods Vehicles: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of extending the zero emission vehicle mandate to include (a) trucks and (b) buses.

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Toys and Games: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to limit the number of dangerous toys sold by third-party sellers on online marketplaces.

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Road Works: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to publish the results of the consultation on Street works: fines and lane rental surplus funds.

10 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vaccination: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of sovereign cold chain partners on the safe (a) storage and (b) delivery of vaccines in healthcare emergencies.

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Iron and Steel: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will establish a definition for (a) lower emission and (b) net zero steel.

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Iron and Steel: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to implement procurement rules to give greater weight to the inclusion of green steel in purchased goods and services.

9 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Larger Eight-toothed European Spruce Bark Beetles

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the damage caused by the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle to trees in (a) Central Bedfordshire and (b) the UK.

9 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to encourage more women to take up careers in the bus industry.

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Medicine: Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will take steps with UK Research and Innovation to increase the proportion of biomedical research funding available for research projects that use non-animal new approach methodol

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Animal Experiments: Universities

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions he has had with university vice-chancellors on reducing the use of animals in experiments.

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Roads: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with National Highways on the effectiveness of using balancing ponds and drains to help prevent flooding on highways.

8 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Faroe Islands: Cetaceans

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in the Faroe Islands on (a) dolphin and (b) whale hunting.

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Cetaceans: Faroe Islands

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the Faroese Minister for Fisheries on cetacean hunts.

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Dolphins and Whales: Hunting

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions the Joint Committee established by the bilateral Free Trade Agreement between the Faroe Islands and the United Kingdom has had about whale and dolphin hunts.

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Sub-national Transport Bodies: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse is of each sub-national transport body.

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Calling Line Identification

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has had discussions with providers on implementing revised Call Line Identification Guidance to extend blocking to international calls which display a UK number as a Presenta

7 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Floods: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help people adapt their homes to mitigate against the risk of flooding.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Driving: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her planned timetable is for bringing forward changes to the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence.

4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Temperature

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that building regulations take into account the need for homes to be resilient to extreme (a) heat and (b) cold.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that programmes to retrofit homes to make them more energy efficient protect against extreme heat as well as cold.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fish Products: Faroe Islands

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of mandating country-of-origin labelling for fish products originating from the Faroe Islands.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for the next reviews of the (a) National Adaptation Programme and (b) strategy for climate change adaptation reporting.

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Economic Situation: Rain

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of rainfall levels in September 2024 on (a) Government spending and (b) the local economy in each of the 10 English counties that have had the highest levels of

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Tickets

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to expand the Unicard rail ticketing hub to include buses.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Parking: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to take steps to encourage local authorities to join the National Parking Platform.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Euston Station: Passengers

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with Network Rail on crowd management improvements to Euston station required by the Office of Road and Rail.

Source: official written-questions record.