Alex Mayer MP: written questions 2025
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Summertime: Carbon EmissionsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68877More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of moving to (a) single and (b) double summer time on cumulative carbon emissions.
Answer: The Government believes the current daylight-saving arrangements represent the optimal use of the available daylight across the UK. Therefore, we have no plans to introduce single summertime, double summertime, or other such changes. Since the Government ...
Answered 24 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Hire ServicesDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68876More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the report entitled Annual Shared Micromobility Report 2024 published by CoMoUK.
Answer: We are committed to growing shared micromobility in Great Britain. The Government continues to trial rental e-scooters so we can learn what works, and on 21 July I announced these trials will be extended to May 2028, and for the first time since the trial...
Answered 25 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Schemes BillDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68875More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact the Pension Schemes Bill on the savings of people in (a) Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard constituency and (b) East of England.
Answer: The Pension Schemes Bill could mean nationally an average earner saving over their career may have around £29,000 more in their Defined Contribution pension pot at retirement. In total, around 20 million savers could benefit from the Bill and around 2 mil...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad Traffic Offences: Fixed PenaltiesDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66757More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is considering taking steps to reform the escalation process for Penalty Charge Notices in cases where the original notice was for a minor offence and was not received by the registered k
Answer: With regard to on-street parking, local highway authorities are responsible for enforcing parking restrictions under the system of Civil Parking Enforcement (CPE). Penalty charge notices must be issued in line with the Secretary of State’s ‘Statutory Guid...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFirst Aid: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66756More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve the provision of basic life support education in schools.
Answer: All state-funded schools are required to teach first aid as part of the statutory health education curriculum, as part of relationships, sex and health education. This includes basic treatment for common injuries, life-saving skills, including how to admi...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFish Farming: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66755More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to introduce species-specific requirements for the slaughter of farmed fish.
Answer: Since publication of the Animal Welfare Committee’s updated Opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing a GB-wide joint government-industry working group on farmed trout has been examining the issues raised in the report. This co-design w...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66754More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of transferring responsibility for the licensing of animal testing to the (a) Department for Environment, Food and Rural
Answer: It is the responsibility of the Cabinet Office to consider the benefits of any changes to the allocation of responsibilities between different government departments.
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordUnderstanding Animal ResearchCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66753More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many arm’s-length bodies provided funding to Understanding Animal Research in the 2024–25 financial year, broken down by the amount of funding provided by each body.
Answer: Information on how issued funding is spent by arms length bodies, including any membership of third party organisations, is not gathered centrally.
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad Signs and Markings: SchoolsDepartment for TransportTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66002More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish a list of locations with enforceable School Keep Clear road markings in each local authority area.
Answer: The Government has no plans to publish such a list. Local authorities are responsible for these markings and maintaining their own records.
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: SafetyDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64811More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to include the safety of road workers in its Road Safety strategy.
Answer: This Government takes the safety of all road users seriously, including those who work on our roads. We are developing a Road Safety Strategy and further details will be shared in due course.
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad Works: StaffHome OfficeTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64308More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the system of recording abuse against roadworkers.
Answer: Assaults against a person are already an offence (Common Assault) under the Criminal Justice Act 1988, and are covered under other legislation such as the Offences against the Person Act 1861, which also covers more serious violence, including actual bodi...
Answered 24 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFiresMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63798More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her Department's planned timetable is for reviewing the national wildfire framework.
Answer: The Government is taking a joined-up approach to enhancing resilience to wildfires. Prior to the transfer of fire functions to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), the Home Office convened a number of stakeholder workshops wi...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFiresMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63797More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating standardised wildfire (a) definitions and (b) recording protocols.
Answer: The Government is taking a joined-up approach to enhancing resilience to wildfires. Prior to the transfer of fire functions to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), the Home Office convened a number of stakeholder workshops wi...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Optical FibresDepartment for TransportTabled 27 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63453More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's press notice entitled On track and online: landmark deal to end mobile dead zones, published 26 June 2025, if she will publish the location of the rail lines due to get improv
Answer: New high-count 432 fibre RoutesKMsLondon Kings Cross to Newcastle432Birmingham New Street to Stoke-on-Trent to Manchester Deansgate133London Marylebone to Birmingham Moor Street (via Chilterns)177London Paddington to Bristol Parkway to Cardiff235Other r...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Mobile BroadbandDepartment for TransportTabled 27 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63451More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's press release entitled On track and online: landmark deal to end mobile dead zones, published on 26 June, if she will list the locations of the 57 tunnels due to receive impro
Answer: The list of tunnels is shown below. Please note the exact timings are subject to commercial discussions with Mobile Network Operators: TunnelRegionRoute MONUMENT LANE TUNNELNorth West & CentralCentral BEECHWOOD TUNNELNorth West & CentralCentral N...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: Fees and ChargesDepartment for TransportTabled 27 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63403More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost of a practical driving test was in each year since 1995.
Answer: The table below shows the cost of a car practical driving test on weekdays (normal hours) and on evenings, weekends and bank holidays (out of hours), from 1 April 1994 to 30 March 2009. The table also shows the cost of an extended car practical driving te...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMuseums and Galleries and TheatresDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62040More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to increase opportunities for people to visit (a) theatres, (b) galleries and (c) museums.
Answer: This Government is committed to increasing opportunities for people to visit theatres, galleries, and museums.This year the Government is delivering a £270 million Arts Everywhere package, providing a major boost for arts venues, museums, libraries and he...
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAir Pollution: Motor VehiclesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62039More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Transport on tackling non-exhaust emissions from road transport as a source of particulate pollution.
Answer: The Government is committed to meeting legal targets for air quality, including the PM2.5 targets recently set under the Environment Act 2021. My officials have regular discussions across Government about the policies needed to ensure we meet these target...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordLitterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62038More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help tackle the sources of littering in (a) Bedfordshire and (b) England.
Answer: Littering is a crime that blights communities and the environment. Local councils are usually best placed to respond to littering and related problems, in a way tailored to the community in which they occur. They have a range of enforcement tools at their...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: SummertimeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62037More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits for businesses of adopting Single/Double Summer Time.
Answer: The Government believes the current daylight-saving arrangements represent the optimal use of the available daylight across the UK. Therefore, we have no plans to introduce double summertime, permanent summertime, or other such changes which would require...
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: 5GDepartment for TransportTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62036More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to roll out rail-5g.
Answer: The Department continues to work closely with Network Rail and industry to look at solutions to improve connectivity on trains, which includes rolling out rail 5G on the rail network. Following the spending review, funding has been made available to inves...
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRailwaysDepartment for TransportTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62035More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the existing regulatory framework for open access rail operators.
Answer: The Government believes the existing regulatory framework that governs access to the railway is not fit for purpose. It has failed not only passengers but also freight operators as it is designed for each part of the railway to act in isolation, resulting...
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLobsters: TransportDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60397More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department’s policy is on the transportation of live lobsters through (a) postal and (b) courier services within the UK.
Answer: Animal welfare legislation protects all animals from being transported in a way likely to cause injury or suffering. Lobsters and other live decapod crustaceans are protected from injury or unnecessary suffering during transportation by a general duty of ...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBus ServicesDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60269More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a centralised portal for guidance on registering local bus services in areas where (a) the traffic commissioner registers the
Answer: The government is committed to ensuring transparency in Local Transport Authority (LTA) and operator service delivery. The Bus Services (No.2) Bill was introduced on 17 December as part of the government’s ambitious plan for bus reform. Bill measures aim ...
Answered 18 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordTraffic CommissionersDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60268More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps to introduce formal tribunal rules for traffic commissioner tribunal functions.
Answer: I understand the important role that the Traffic Commissioners perform with regards to the licensing and regulation of the HGV and PSV industries, and road-user safety.My Department are currently considering a range of reform options aiming to ensure that...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
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