Rebecca Smith

29 Jun 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Electric Vehicles: Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing additional tariffs on battery electric vehicles manufactured in China.

29 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing (a) procurement and (b) local content requirements for publicly supported vehicle purchases.

29 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Vans: Electric Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number and proportion of light commercial vans that, under normal operating conditions, would require (a) no en route charging, (b) one charging stop, (c) two chargi

24 Jun 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many veterans with amputations or other permanent injuries were reassessed for disability-related benefits in each of the last three years.

24 Jun 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Armed Forces Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the impact of treating Armed Forces Compensation Scheme payments as income for means-tested benefit assessments.

23 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Electric Bicycles: Road Traffic Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many prosecutions were brought relating to the use of electrically assisted pedal cycles that exceeded the (a) legal power and (b) speed limits in each of the last five years.

23 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many motorists were prosecuted for displaying an illegally altered or obscured registration plate in each of the last five years.

23 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Freight

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Government boost for businesses to drive freight innovation, published on 3 December 2025, whether she will publish the Freight Plan during 2026.

23 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Active Travel

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Active Travel England undertakes realised value for money assessments of completed active travel schemes.

23 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for each railway station project in England approved since 2015, if she will set out the (a) original budget, (b) latest budget, (c) original completion date, (d) current expected completion date where applicab

23 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Transport: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of local transport infrastructure schemes funded through City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements have experienced cost increases since approval in each of the last three years.

23 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Liverpool Street Station: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding has been allocated to progress the Liverpool Street Station redevelopment scheme from committee resolution to a legally implementable planning permission; if she will set out who is funding tha

22 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Train Operating Companies: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June to Question 9171, what passenger revenue assumptions underpinned the forecast £464.6 million reduction in Support for Passenger Rail Services in 2025-26; and what the actual pa

22 Jun 2026 · Department for Education

Teachers: Part-time Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of amending the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document to require schools to provide part-time teachers with confirmed work schedules before cont

22 Jun 2026 · Department for Education

Teachers: Part-time Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of schools issuing timetables and working patterns after teacher resignation deadlines on part time teachers.

18 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicles: Electric Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 15 June 2026 to Question 8838, whether her Department has modelled the impact of a heavy goods vehicle zero emission vehicle mandate on (a) haulage costs, (b) food and grocery prices,

18 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Greater Thameslink Railway: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 15 June 2026 to Question 7116, how many of the planned increase of approximately 75 full-time equivalent drivers are expected to be allocated to (a) Thameslink and (b) Great Northern s

18 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicles: Operating Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2026 to Question 8838, what estimate her Department has made of the average total cost of ownership of (a) a diesel heavy goods vehicle and (b) an equivalent zero emission heav

18 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2026 to Question 7215 on Railway Stations: Nitrogen Dioxide, from which budgets funding for Air Quality Improvement Plans is drawn where approval is granted at local level.

18 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Biodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2026 to Question 7211 on Network Rail: Biodiversity, what funding provision within the Final Determination covers the preparation and implementation of habitat management plans

17 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the Veterans Strategy for social care provision for veterans.

17 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on access to adult social care services for members of the Armed Forces community in rural areas.

16 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the gap between NHS England's 2018 commissioning target of 1,000 left atrial appendage occlusion procedures per annum and current delivery.

16 Jun 2026 · Department for Education

Religion: Primary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve subject-specific training in religious education for primary teachers, in the context of evidence from the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education that more t

16 Jun 2026 · Department for Education

Teachers: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what percentage of teaching hours delivered by teachers with no relevant post-A Level qualification is in (a) Physics (b) Religious Education and (c) History, broken down by (i) multi-academy trust and (ii) loc

15 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Active Travel: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much of the projected £4.555 billion investment associated with the Third Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy is expected to be funded from (a) budgets already allocated to local authorities and (b) add

15 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Active Travel: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of the projected £4.555 billion investment referred to in the Third Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy represents funding which local authorities were due to receive before publication of t

11 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to respond to Question 3597 from the hon. Member for South West Devon.

11 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to respond to Question 919 from the hon. Member for South West Devon.

9 Jun 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Ferries: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how his Department has accounted for the availability of decarbonisation alternatives on Northern Ireland ferry routes when assessing the proportionality of ETS implementation.