Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
200,535 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps her Department has taken to reduce wait times for medical driving licences.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps her Department has taken to reduce car driving test wait times at (a) Monmouth test centre, (b) Abergavenny test centre and (c) test centres in South Wales.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of delays in the administration of Civil Service pensions following the transfer of pension administration responsibilities to Capita on those pension holders;
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason the final 2025–26 departmental pay settlement was not applied to staff who left the Department under the Voluntary Exit Scheme after being employed on the date fr
To ask His Majesty's Government, in interventional commercial clinical trials, what the average time taken for (1) regulatory review, (2) study opening, and (3) recruitment of the first participant, was in the reporting period used to support their 15 Apr
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make a comparative assessment of the cost per platform of (a) White Rose Station and (b) railway stations opened elsewhere in England since 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding for White Rose Station has been provided a) from central Government sources, b) by local authorities and c) by private sector partners.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the capacity of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority to deliver the proposed West Yorkshire mass transit scheme in the context of the time taken for White Rose S
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of active travel interventions on local authority traffic enforcement revenue.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the availability and quality of swimming lessons in primary schools; what recent estimate her Department has made of the average cost to schools of delivering the national curric
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of medicines approved for the treatment of brain tumours in the last 10 years; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the approvals process
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of NICE introducing a fast-track evaluation process for brain tumour drugs supported by early-stage evidence.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding has been allocated to progress the Liverpool Street Station redevelopment scheme from committee resolution to a legally implementable planning permission; if she will set out who is funding tha
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of local transport infrastructure schemes funded through City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements have experienced cost increases since approval in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for each railway station project in England approved since 2015, if she will set out the (a) original budget, (b) latest budget, (c) original completion date, (d) current expected completion date where applicab
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential for the application deadline for the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme to exclude eligible claimants, and whether they intend to extend it to ensure that those facing administ
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential economic impact of coastal communities on the national economy; and whether she plans to publish a strategy for supporting econ
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Active Travel England undertakes realised value for money assessments of completed active travel schemes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Government boost for businesses to drive freight innovation, published on 3 December 2025, whether she will publish the Freight Plan during 2026.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of ports on (a) economic growth, (b) skills and (c) employment in coastal communities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the availability of (a) apprenticeships and (b) technical training opportunities for young people in coastal communities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether Jonathan Powell visited China on Departmental business between 5 July and 8 November 2024.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what meetings took place between Jonathan Powell and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office civil servants from the Overseas Territories and Polar Directorate between 5
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for MRI scans for patients with suspected brain tumours.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many offshore energy workers have been winched to safety from (a) fixed offshore oil and gas installations, (b) floating production storage and offloading units and (c) offshore wind farms on the UK Contine