Written questions

182 written questions tabled, most recent first.

31 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Public Lavatories

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department holds information on the percentage of truck stops on the Strategic Road Network which have free toilet facilities.

31 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on steps to improve the mental health of HGV drivers.

31 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Public Lavatories

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps to help increase the availability of toilet facilities for HGV drivers.

31 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Public Lavatories

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many free toilet facilities there are on the road network managed by National Highways; and how many and what proportion of these are accessible for HGVs.

22 Jan 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme: Wimbledon

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2025 to Question 24076 on Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme: Wimbledon, who the seven recipients were.

22 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department's Roads Investment Committee has considered funding alterations to the London South Circular in the last year.

21 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

River Hogsmill

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve the environmental health of Hogsmill River.

20 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 27 March 2023 to Question 169467 on Public Transport, when her Department plans to publish the final report on the Rural Mobility Fund.

16 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Freight

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a new approach to access charges to help incentivise rail freight operators to (a) fund greener assets and (b) use the network more efficien

16 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Fuels: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make a comparative estimate of the potential impact of maintaining levels of fuel duty at the Autumn Budget 2024 on the cost of transporting goods by (a) rail freight and (b) road haulage.

15 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Agent of Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of putting the agent of change principle on a statutory footing.

15 Jan 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Nightclubs and Music Venues

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of formally recognising (a) nightclubs and (b) music venues as cultural, heritage and community assets.

15 Jan 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Night-time Economy: Nightclubs and Music Venues

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with representatives of the electronic music and nightclub sector on the night-time culture economy.

15 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Merton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on the location of a breast cancer screening site in Merton; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of using a breast cancer screening van u

14 Jan 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme: Wimbledon

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who the recipients were of grants from the Listed Places of Worship Scheme in Wimbledon since 2001; and how much each recipient received.

18 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Music Venues: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the reduction in business rate relief for grassroots music venues on (a) the number of jobs in the music industry and (b) early-career musicians.

18 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Music Venues: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of changes in business rate relief for grassroots music venues on the (a) number of live music venues and (b) music industry.

18 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

Rolling Stock: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the lack of clarity on the northern leg of HS2 on the the train manufacturing industry in the UK.

18 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line: Euston Station

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether plans for the development of Euston Station for HS2 include (a) provisions and (b) reserved space for potential expansion from six platforms.

18 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line: Euston Station

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of reducing the proposed number of platforms for HS2 at Euston Station from 11 to 6 on the economic case for HS2.

12 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to improve the water quality of chalk streams.

28 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Smoking: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that local stop smoking services offer the option of a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-approved non-pharmaceutical method to

28 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had recent discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of extending the VAT exemption for adapted motor vehicles for disabled people to include taxis.

28 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: VAT

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had recent discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of removing VAT from small-vehicle public transport.

28 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Public Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help increase access to (a) demand-responsive public transport and (b) dial-a-ride services.

26 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tranexamic Acid

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making Tranexamic Acid (TXA) a Schedule 19 Drug.

25 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Reparation by Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will issue an updated Restorative Justice Action Plan.

25 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Reparation by Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to increase awareness of restorative justice throughout the criminal justice system.

22 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve breast cancer screening in (a) London and (b) Wimbledon constituency.

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the report entitled £2 bus fare cap evaluation: interim report, published on 17 May 2023, if her Department will publish the final report.

Source: official written-questions record.