Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined House of Lords: 4th October 2016
1 APPG Membership
Music1 Former APPG Officer Position
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Latest 4 Written Questions
(View all written questions)1 Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Questions
(View all Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court's BIST questions)We are carefully considering the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy programme in the context of the new Government’s trade objectives. We will update the house in due course on the programme’s future.
The road safety statistics published by the Department do not differentiate between injuries to pedestrians caused by e-bikes and those by ordinary pedal cycles.
In 2024, there was 1 fatality and 186 serious injuries involving a pedestrian in a collision with a pedal cycle. This increased in 2025 to 2 fatalities and 234 serious injuries.
While no further assessment has been made, the Crime and Policing Act 2026 introduced new offences for cyclists who cause the death or serious injury of another person, with penalties for those offences brought into line with those for motorists.
The Crime and Policing Act 2026 also strengthened the powers of the police to deal with anti-social vehicle use. The police are no longer required to provide a warning before seizing any vehicle being used anti-socially, and this extends to e-motorbikes that have not been properly registered as motor vehicles.
Minister of State (Department for Transport)
The requested information is in the table below. The data presentation is consistent with PQ HL3608 that was tabled in November 2022.
| 1996-97 | 2009-10 | 2024-25 |
(1) National insurance-funded pensions (£billion) (1) | 32.0 | 66.8 | 136.4 |
as a percentage of Total Managed Expenditure | 9.75% | 9.28% | 10.56% |
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(2) UK Health Expenditure (£billion) (2) | 42.8 | 116.9 | 242.5 |
as a percentage of Total Managed Expenditure | 13.04% | 16.23% | 18.77% |
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Total Managed Expenditure (£billion) (3) | 328.2 | 720.3 | 1,291.8 |
Data Sources:
(1) Figures taken from benefit expenditure and caseload tables published by the Department of Work and Pensions. Figures for National insurance-funded pensions are in line with data provided in a similar PQ from November 2022.
(2) Data from 2009-10 onwards taken from Table 10 of the Public Spending Statistics (PSS) release of February 2026. Data for 1996-97 are taken from Table 4.2 of PESA 2020.
(3) Data originally published by the Office for National Statistics consistent with the February 2026 PSS release from HM Treasury.
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