Written questions

518 written questions tabled, most recent first.

2 Feb 2026 · Scotland Office

UK Emissions Trading Scheme: Shipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on using funds raised by the expansion of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme to support maritime decarbonisation projects in Scotland.

29 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Roads: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the road safety strategy on deaths and serious injuries from cycling and walking.

29 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Cycling and Electric Bicycles: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what will be the remit of the new Road Safety Investigation Branch in relation to cycling and e-bikes.

28 Jan 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Natural Resources

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what initiatives her Department supports that mitigate adverse effects of resource extraction on low-income countries.

28 Jan 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Consumption and Supply Chains: Developing Countries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that UK consumption and supply chains do not indirectly contribute to (a) deprivation and (b) exploitative conditions in lower-income countries.

28 Jan 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has considered international policy frameworks that distribute responsibility for emissions reductions to account for historic and present inequalities between high-emitting and lo

27 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Transport: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what action her department is taking to support the use of digital twin technologies across the UK's transport system.

27 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Transport: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the progress of the Transport Research and Innovation Board's 2023 Transport Digital Twin Vision and Roadmap to 2035.

21 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the replacement of the Shared Prosperity Fund with the Local Growth Fund on child poverty.

20 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her planned timetable is for taking legislative steps to develop a regulatory framework for low and zero emission vehicles, following the commitment in the Road Safety Strategy.

20 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Driverless Cars: Motor Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the data opportunities of connected and autonomous vehicles to reduce uninsured driving.

20 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of unlawful number plates on (a) the ability of the police to trace hit-and-run drivers and (b) efforts to reduce the proportion of untraced driver claims ha

20 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of compensating victims of collisions involving illegal e-scooters and e-bikes on (a) the cost of motor insurance premiums for other motorists and (b) costs

8 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bladder Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consideration he has made of the need for a national bladder cancer audit.

7 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve pre-release planning to ensure that prison leavers do not become homeless or sleep rough following release.

7 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Refugees: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that newly recognised refugees who are survivors of trafficking, domestic abuse or torture are not left destitute or homeless when asylum support ends.

7 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Refugees: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people granted refugee status have presented to local authorities as homeless or have slept rough within three months of the termination of asylum support in the last 12

7 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Vehicles: Delivery Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what interactions the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has had with food delivery companies in reference to vehicles used by delivery drivers.

7 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2025 to Question 98632, how many visits the DVSA has made to retailers selling e-scooters; and how many incidences the DVSA have recorded of e-scooters being sold illegally

5 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cardiovascular Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an equivalent of the EU Safe Hearts Plan in the UK.

16 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has assessed whether NICE has approved a greater or fewer number of new medicines since the introduction of the severity modifier in 2020, compared with comparable internatio

16 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department made an impact assessment of the effect of NICE’s severity modifier, introduced in 2020, on the ability of cancer medicines to meet the new ‘high severity’ threshold for appr

16 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his department has considered the impact of NICE’s severity modifier, introduced in 2020, on NHS England’s access to innovative cancer medicines which were previously eligible under the end

16 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Edinburgh South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many registered a) petrol vehicles, b) diesel vehicles, c) electric vehicles, d) hybrid vehicles and e) classic vehicles were there in Edinburgh South West constituency in the last 5 years and the last 10 y

16 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Bicycles: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the APPG for Cycling and Walking's report entitled Unregulated and Unsafe: The Threat of Illegal E-Bikes.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

World Cup: Tickets

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with FIFA on the pricing of participating member association's tickets for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Higher Education: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the accessibility of information provided by English universities on entry requirements for Scottish Highers and Advanced Highers on their websites.

11 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Streaming: Classification Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with streaming services on effective audience protection measures and age classifications.

11 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Streaming: Classification Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with streaming services on adopting the British Board of Film Classification's age and content classifications.

11 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Home Office: Drinkaware Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase collaboration between her Department and Drinkaware.

Source: official written-questions record.