Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,265 questions
Department for Transport: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to respond to my Question 11459.
UK Airspace Design Service: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2026 to Question 13301 on Air Routes, how many staff the UK Airspace Design Service is expected to employ when fully operational.
Trident Submarines
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to define the requirement for the post-Dreadnought strategic deterrent.
Aviation: Engineers
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of long training lead times for licensed aircraft engineers on future aviation capacity and connectivity.
Heathrow Airport: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an estimate of the cost of replacing Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre and the Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre in the event a third runway at Heathrow Airport was approved.
Nuclear Weapons: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 29 June 2026, to question 11271 on Nuclear Weapons: Procurement, and with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published in 30 June 2026, Table 3: Spending on the Defence Nuclear En
Ballistic Missile Defence: Unmanned Air Systems
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, page 28 on Integrated Air and Missile Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of CCAs on IAMD into the 2030s.
Railways: Mobile Broadband
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the reason was for the time taken between the submission of the Project Reach outline business case and final government approval.
Sky Sabre
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, page 28, what estimate he has made of the number of the Sky Sabre air defence missile systems operated by the Army.
Hawk Aircraft: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, Table 7: Spending on the Air Domain, what is the scope of the £860m funding for the Hawk T1 and T2.
Challenger Tanks: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 30 June 2026 to question 12407 on Challenger Tanks: Procurement, what is the Initial Operating Capability forecast for Challenger 3.
Warships: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the Planning Assumption for Service Entry of Type 91.
Motorways: Road Traffic Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve traffic management and congestion patterns on motorways.
Heathrow Airport: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on who would fund replacement Immigration Removal Centres in the event of a third runway at Heathrow being approved.
Cement
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department holds data on the i.) amount of cement and proportion of the UK's domestic requirement for cement has been produced in the UK in each of the last 10 years ii.) amount of cement a
Cement: Industry
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the level of importance of the cement industry to the economy and the number of jobs reliant on it.
Department for Business and Trade: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure compliance with data protection requirements under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 relating to the processing of special category data, including data r
Department for Business and Trade: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what guidance his Department has issued internally to ensure compliance with the provisions of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 in relation to automated decision-making.
Department for Business and Trade: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department has taken to assess and mitigate risks of (a) bias and (b) discrimination arising from the use of automated decision-making systems.
Railways: Belfast and Dublin
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consideration her Department has given to supporting the development of a high-speed rail connection between Belfast and Dublin capable of reducing end-to-end journey times to under two hours; and what dis
Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what safeguards he has implemented to ensure compliance with statutory requirements relating to automated decision-making, including rights to information, human review and challenge in the context of
Structures Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to review the requirement that projects funded through the Structures Fund be completed by 31 March 2030 in cases where that deadline may prevent the restoration of nationally significant tran
Aviation: Engineers
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of aviation engineering workforce shortages on the future resilience of the aviation sector.
Department for Business and Trade: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department maintains a (a) public register and (b) internal inventory of automated decision-making systems.
Department for Business and Trade: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, on what basis Automated Decision-Making in his Department are being made.