Written questions
698 written questions tabled, most recent first.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Driving: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had discussions with her European counterparts on the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Union-wide effect of certain driving disqualifications.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Companies: Directors
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will hold discussions with Ofwat on the potential merits of (a) employees and (b) bill payers being made members of the Boards of water companies.
4 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Premium Bonds
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of all purchases of premium bonds made in the last financial year were under the value of (a) £100, (b) £1000 and (c) £10,000.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Airports: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an assessment of the cumulative environmental impact of airport expansion plans when considering the expansion of individual airports.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Airports: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an environmental impact assessment for each airport expansion plan.
11 Sep 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fly-tipping: Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of instances of fly tipping in Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard constituency in each year since 2010.
11 Sep 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fly-tipping
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a single reporting mechanism for fly-tipping incidents.
4 Sep 2024 · Department for Transport
Airports
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department will introduce a new National Airport Strategy.
2 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Defibrillators
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access to defibrillators in (a) Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard constituency, (b) Central Bedfordshire and (c) the UK.
2 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Regional Planning and Development: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an estimate of the annual cost to the public purse of pan-regional partnerships.
2 Sep 2024 · Department for Transport
Buses: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of infrastructure required for the operation of zero-emission coaches.
2 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Anorexia
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support people with anorexia.
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Transport
Bus Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the Bus Service Improvement Plan on bus patronage.
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Warm Homes Plan
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his planned timeline is for rolling out his Department’s Warm Homes Plan.
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sewage: Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the number of sewage discharges into waterways there have been in Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard constituency in the last 12 months.
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Social Media: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the potential link between (a) animal abuse and (b) social media.
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Household Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of continuing the Household Support Fund after 30 September 2024.
30 Aug 2024 · Treasury
Inheritance Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will make an (a) estimate of the potential costs and (b) assessment of the potential merits of extending inheritance tax relief to long-term cohabiting and co-dependent siblings.
30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will set a timeframe for introducing legislative provisions to reform the dental contract.
30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of NHS dental provision in Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard constituency.
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare: Fireworks
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will make an assessment of the impact of fireworks on (a) domestic and (b) wild animals.
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education
Schools: Uniforms
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to update statutory guidance on the cost of school uniforms.
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his Department's policy that deliberate cruelty against companion animals is a standing item on the agenda of the Animal Welfare Committee.
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education
Disinformation: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including education on identifying misinformation online in the school curriculum.
30 Aug 2024 · Home Office
Knives: Advertising and Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will establish a review of knife (a) advertising and (b) sales including the strengthening of (i) ID and (ii) age checks by delivery services.
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
National Grid
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of changing grid connection rules restricting operators from directly supplying households unless they acquire the same suppl
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
National Grid
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department is taking steps to encourage flexibility in grid connection rules to allow operators to co-locate (a) wind, (b) solar, (c) battery and (d) other technologies through si
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
National Grid
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of reprioritising the grid connection queue to favour viable projects with planning consent over (a) stalled and (b) speculat
30 Aug 2024 · Home Office
Police: First Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to support the availability of bleed control kits in (a) Central Bedfordshire and (b) the UK.
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Fares
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 721 on Bus Services: Concessions, what the average cost per passenger journey to the public purse of the £2 National Bus Fare Cap scheme was in each county in
Source: official written-questions record.