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.