Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,265 questions
Department for Education: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what safeguards have been implemented to ensure compliance with statutory requirements relating to automated decision-making, including rights to information, human review, and challenge.
Department for Education: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, given the passage of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 how individuals are informed that decisions affecting them have been taken, in whole or in part, by automated means.
Department for Education: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what processes are in place to enable individuals to seek human review and to challenge decisions made by automated systems.
Department for Education: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department define and ensure meaningful human involvement in decisions supported or made by automated systems.
Department for Education: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, given the passage of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 what measures are in place to ensure that human oversight is substantive and effective, rather than limited to formal or nominal review.
Department for Education: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, to what extent are automated decision-making systems used in relation to civil service employment, including recruitment, performance management, discipline, or allocation of work.
Department for Education: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with trade union representatives on the introduction or use of automated decision-making systems affecting staff.
Department for Education: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps has her Department taken to assess and mitigate risks of bias or discrimination arising from the use of automated decision-making systems.
Department for Education: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Department maintains a public register or internal inventory of automated decision-making systems; and whether it plans to publish such information.
Department for Education: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department ensures compliance with data protection requirements relating to the processing of special category data, including data relating to health or protected characteristics.
Department for Education: Agency Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many agency staff were employed by her Department in each of the last three years.
Further Education and Schools: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of schools and colleges that meet the Department’s cyber security core standard; and what steps she is taking to ensure that all education settings meet t
School Meals: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations her Department has received from children and young people on improving the healthiness of school food as part of the proposed updated School Food Standards.
Pupils: Absenteeism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many fixed penalty notices for school absences were issued in Bath, North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire in the last academic year.
Government Departments: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many cybersecurity incidents affecting government departments in each of the last three years originated in or involved a third-party supplier; and what steps are being taken to stre
Maritime and Coastguard Agency: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason the Maritime and Coastguard Agency changed the operating model of the Coastguard Rescue Service to an unpaid model rather making changes necessary to reflect the Court of Appeal judgment in Mari
Railways: CCTV
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 16176 on Railways: CCTV, whether the funding allocated to the rail CCTV connectivity project represents (a) the total estimated cost of delivering the programm
HM Coastguard: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether surveys or questionnaires have been issued to Coastguard Rescue Officers in relation to changes to remuneration.
London North Eastern Railway: WiFi
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2026 to Question 5917 on London North Eastern Railway: WiFi, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact on regional productivity of this timescale.
Railways: Catering
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will consider introducing a requirement for a minimum provision of food supplies for rail companies to provide passengers affected by delays between stations.
Railways: Fires
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the obligations of landowners near railway tracks to maintain land to avoid the risk of fire causing disruption to rail services.
Railways: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of eligible rail journeys currently result in passengers receiving automatic compensation for delays; and what steps she is taking to increase that proportion.
Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what factors are preventing the acceptance and entry into passenger service of the Class 810 fleet.
Department for Transport: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2026 to Question 15465 on Department for Transport: Carbon Emissions, when the Greening Government Commitments (2025–2030) will be finalised.
Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average daily percentage of rolling stock available for passenger service was for each train operating company in each month since June 2024.