David Reed

9 Jul 2026 · Treasury

National Security: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, given the Prime Minister's confirmation at the NATO summit that the UK has met the NATO target of spending 1.5% of GDP on security-related investment, if she will set out (a) which departments' budgets contributed t

8 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Air Ambulance Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support air ambulance services.

8 Jul 2026 · Wales Office

Wales Office: Emergencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many meetings her Department has held with the Welsh Government in the last 12 months on coordinating resilience planning for risks that span reserved and devolved responsibilities.

8 Jul 2026 · Northern Ireland Office

Northern Ireland Office: Emergencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many meetings his Department has held with the Northern Ireland Executive in the last 12 months on coordinating resilience planning for risks that span reserved and devolved responsibilities.

8 Jul 2026 · Scotland Office

Scotland Office: Emergencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many meetings his Department has held with the Scottish Government in the last 12 months on coordinating resilience planning for risks that span reserved and devolved responsibilities.

8 Jul 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Risk Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of local authorities in England have an up-to-date community risk register and emergency plan.

8 Jul 2026 · Home Office

Police: Civil Disorder

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the capacity of the police mutual aid system to respond to simultaneous civil disorder in multiple police force areas.

8 Jul 2026 · Home Office

Emergency Services Network: Outages

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what contingency arrangements are in place to maintain police communications in the event of a failure of the Emergency Services Network or wider telecommunications infrastructure.

8 Jul 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Diplomatic Service: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many of her staff are trained for deployment as part of her Department's Rapid Deployment Teams for consular crises.

8 Jul 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions and Social Security Benefits: Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what contingency arrangements are in place to maintain payment of benefits and pensions in the event of a (a) major IT or (b) infrastructure disruption.

8 Jul 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Data Centres: Outages

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when her Department last conducted a risk assessment of the ability of data centres designated as Critical National Infrastructure to continue operating during a sustained cyberattack.

8 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Emergencies: Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what mechanisms exist to mobilise additional medical staff in the event of a national emergency.

8 Jul 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Diplomatic Service: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of its consular surge capacity to support British nationals in the event of a large-scale overseas crisis.

8 Jul 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Diesel and Petrol: Reserves

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department holds any government-owned strategic reserve of (a) petrol and (b) diesel for emergency use, separate from industry stockholding obligations.

8 Jul 2026 · Department for Transport

Transport: Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many cyber security incident reports relating to transport networks her Department received in the last 12 months.

8 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what stockpiles of medicines on the Critical Medicines List are currently held by her Department.

8 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food Supply: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what contingency measures her Department has in place to ensure food reserves in the event of a major disruption to food supply chains.

7 Jul 2026 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of small boat arrivals were removed in 2025.

7 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the condition and capacity of food storage infrastructure used to support food security.

7 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what mechanisms her Department has in place to maintain the supply of food to the population in the event of a major disruption to food supply chains, including (a) formal agreements w

7 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Droughts

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the National Drought Group last reviewed drought preparedness plans; and what the findings were.

7 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department last assessed the resilience of water supplies in England; and what the findings were.

7 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department last assessed the resilience of UK food supplies to a simultaneous disruption affecting major food-exporting countries; and what the findings of that assessment wer

7 Jul 2026 · Department for Education

Schools: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of schools in England have a business continuity plan that has been reviewed in the last 12 months.

7 Jul 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Public Service Broadcasting

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department last conducted a resilience test of public service broadcasting infrastructure against the scenario of a national telecommunications network failure.

7 Jul 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Small Businesses: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has a specific budget to support a) small and b) medium-sized businesses in developing business continuity plans for major disruption.

7 Jul 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Minerals: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when the resilience of UK supply chains for critical minerals was last formally reviewed by his Department; and what the findings of that review were.

7 Jul 2026 · Attorney General

Law Officers: Emergencies

To ask the Solicitor General, on how many occasions the Law Officers have been consulted by government departments on the lawful use of emergency powers in the context of civil emergency planning in the last 12 months.

7 Jul 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Natural Gas: Storage

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, a) what the UK's current gas storage capacity is as a proportion of average winter demand and b) how that compares with the capacity of other G7 countries.

7 Jul 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many cyber security incident reports relating to energy infrastructure his Department received in the last 12 months.