Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,265 questions
Revenue and Customs: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HMRC are taking to enable individuals to (a) seek human review of and (b) to challenge decisions made by automated systems.
Revenue and Customs: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance HMRC provides internally on compliance with the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 in relation to automated decision-making.
Revenue and Customs: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HMRC are taking to ensure compliance with requirements under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 relating to (a) automated decision-making and (b) rights to (i) information, (ii) human review, and (iii) ch
Revenue and Customs: Data Protection
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HMRC 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 relating to health or pro
Revenue and Customs: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to what extent are automated decision-making systems in HMRC used in relation to civil service employment, including recruitment, performance management, discipline, or allocation of work.
Revenue and Customs: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions (a) her Department and (b) HMRC has had with recognised trade unions in HMRC regarding the (i) introduction and (ii) use of automated decision-making systems affecting staff.
Energy: Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to WPQ UIN 129429 answered on 28 April 2026, whether he has had recent discussions with Ofgem on the adequacy of the non-financial support offered by energy companies to people livin
Revenue and Customs: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HMRC maintains a (a) public register and (b) internal inventory of automated decision-making systems.
Revenue and Customs: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, on what lawful basis are Automated Decision-Making in HMRC being made.
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of backdated VAT refunds if HMRC’s appeal against the March 2026 tax tribunal ruling on public EV charging is unsuccessful.
Members: Correspondence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 17 June 2026 to question 8227 on Members: Correspondence, when her Department plans to respond to the hon. Member for Newton Abbot on the correspondence sent on 21 April 2026 with case ref
Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Immigration Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential risk that incomplete EU Entry/Exit System exit records could wrongly count UK-based professional HGV drivers as remaining in the Schengen area after they have retur
Railway Stations: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many railway stations in England operate without step-free access.
Small Businesses: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Railways: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2026 to Question 11946 on Train Operating Companies: Finance, whether her Department has undertaken analysis on the factors resulting in passenger revenue in 2025-26 being lowe
Aviation: Alternative Fuels
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 26 June 2026 to Question 11220 on Aviation: Alternative Fuels, what assumptions were made in the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Mandate cost-benefit analysis on the proportion of increased
Aviation: Alternative Fuels
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2026 to Question 12528 on Aviation: Alternative Fuels, when the wider eligibility criteria for the Low Carbon Fuels Fund will be published; and what those criteria will be.
Large Goods Vehicles: Electric Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2026 to Question 11454 on Heavy Goods Vehicles, whether the analysis referred to in that Answer has been published.
Department for Transport: Public Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2026 to Question 9949 on Active Travel, how much of the projected £3.448 billion from wider funding streams within the Department for Transport and other Government departments
Large Goods Vehicles: Electric Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 June 2026 to Question 8653 on Large Goods Vehicles: Electric Vehicles, what estimate her Department has made of the average purchase price differential between a diesel heavy goods
Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 24 March 2026 to Question 119087 on Maritime and Coastguard Agency: Finance, when she expects the public consultation on the replacement for the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulati
Large Goods Vehicles: Electric Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, in which year does her Department expect upfront purchase costs of zero-emission heavy goods vehicles to reach parity with equivalent diesel vehicles.
Airports: Noise
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help reduce noise pollution from airports.
Defence: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 22 of the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, if he will publish a list detailing (a) the winners and (b) the value of each of the 1,400 major defence contracts signed
Warships: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Type 91s will be procured.