Written questions

698 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

HGV Parking and Driver Welfare Grant Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 May 2025 to Question?53316 on HGV Parking and Driver Welfare Grant Scheme, what recent progress she has made on the review of the scheme; and when she will publish interim findings.

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

Regional Planning and Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's Pride in Place Programme phase 2 methodology note, published on 25 September 2025, if he will publish the scores of the ranked list of neighbou

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Cycleways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of the national cycle network are permissive routes.

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

Forests: Biodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle reductions in biodiversity in existing woodlands; and what steps she plans to take through the Environmental Improvement Plan to moni

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

Trees: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has considered implementing the recommendations made in the Tree Council’s report entitled Protecting trees of high social, cultural and environmental value, pub

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

Forests

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the £816 million set aside for tree planting over the Spending Review period he plans to spend on the management of existing woodlands.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the National Infrastructure Service and Transformation Authority's document entitled NISTA Annual Report 2024-2025, published on 11 August 2025, what estimate she has made of the forecast underspend

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of extreme weather related to climate change since 1 January 2020.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of asking the National Screening Committee’s to review the evidence on risk-stratified screening.

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Climate Change: Economic Growth

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Office for Budget Responsibility's report entitled Fiscal risks and sustainability – July 2025, published on 8 July 2025, whether she has asked the OBR to include in its next publication update

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Home Office: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to her Department of extreme weather related to climate change since 1 January 2020.

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

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of extreme weather related to climate change since 1 January 2020.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the costs to her Department of climate-related extreme weather since 1 January 2020.

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

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the costs to her Department of climate-related extreme weather since 1 January 2020.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate he has made of the costs to his Department of climate-related extreme weather since 1 January 2020.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Department for Education: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the costs to her Department of climate-related extreme weather since 1 January 2020.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the cost to her Department of climate -related extreme weather since 1 January 2020.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the costs to his Department of extreme weather events related to climate change on the level of economic growth since 1 January 2020; and what steps he is takin

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Treasury: Climate Change

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the potential economic impact of extreme weather events related to climate change on the level of economic growth since 1 January 2020; and what steps she is taking with Cabi

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Highways England

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will update the delivery plan for Highways England 2020-2025.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Renewable Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the potential renewable power generation capacity of Network Rail’s estate.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Rapid Transit Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the performance of guided busways as a type of rapid transit on (a) journey time reliability, (b) passenger growth and (c) modal shift from private vehicles.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of (a) the prevalence of illegally modified number plates and (b) the adequacy of current enforcement and detection mechanisms; and whether she plans to review the associ

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the readiness of integrated care boards to assume responsibility for commissioning vaccination and immunisation services.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vaccination: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve childhood vaccination coverage rates in (a) Bedfordshire, (b) the East of England and (c) the UK.

9 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning: Empty Property

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of existing national planning policy and guidance in relation to meanwhile use.

9 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of expenditure on special educational needs transport provision in England.

9 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Car Sharing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data her Department holds on the scale of ride sharing car services.

9 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Childcare: East of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of families expected to benefit from the 30 hours of free childcare by council area in the East of England.

4 Sep 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions Commission: Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what impact the Pension Commission will have for residents in (a) Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard constituency and (b) Bedfordshire.

Source: official written-questions record.