Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number Yutong buses ordered for operation in the UK by operator.

Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Department holds partial information on the number of Yutong buses ordered for operation in the UK. The information in the table below is correct as of November 2025 for England only, taken from projects which the Department has funded. This includes buses which are in service and those which have been ordered. We do not hold data on any Yutong buses ordered outside of these schemes.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will have discussions with National Highways on reactivating the overnight lights on the Rubery flyover on the A38.

Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

Street lighting on this section of the highway is the responsibility of the local highway authority rather than National Highways. It is for each local highway authority to assess which parts of its network require attending to and to what standards based upon local knowledge and circumstance. The Government does not intervene in such local matters. Hence, I would encourage you to engage with the responsible local highway authorities, Birmingham City Council and Worcestershire County Council.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2025 to Question 83545 on Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, if he will publish a version of that table covering each year for which his Department holds equivalent data.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The spend by the Department for Work and Pensions on the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme is included for the available years in a table below.

Source: outturn-and-forecast-tables-spring-statement-2025.xlsx

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of constructing Glenart Castle Mess in Longbridge.

Answered by Luke Pollard - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)

Glenart Castle Mess was constructed in July 2017. The total construction time for the entire project, including planning/prebuild and post-building works was from 2014 to 29 September 2017. The capital cost of the construction of Glenart Castle Mess in Longbridge, was £29.5 million. This figure reflects the cost of building the Mess itself. However, the total capital cost of the wider project, which included associated infrastructure such as utilities, highways, hardstanding, weather protection shelters, and risk assessments, was c£36.2 million.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress has been made on the reopening of the Camp Hill line in Birmingham.

Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

My officials are in regular contact with West Midlands Rail Executive and the West Midlands Combined Authority, who are reopening the Camp Hill line with three new stations at Moseley, Kings Heath and Pineapple Road.

Construction is close to completion; the stations are expected to be open for public use early next year.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department holds information on the number of railway strike days, broken down by year; and what is the first year for which such records are held.

Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

Published Office of Rail and Road data reports that there were 52 national strike days between April 2022 and March 2024.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Network Rail's spreadsheet published on 2 February 2022 entitled Payments for disruption on the railway, if Network Rail will publish an updated version of that table.

Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

Network Rail publish information to meet their statutory obligations and where it would be valuable to the public.

They aim not to duplicate information published elsewhere (for instance on their Safety Central site, their Annual Report and Accounts, or through the Rail Data Marketplace).

Annual Schedule 8 payment figures are published in Network Rail’s Regulatory Financial Statements.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the National Rail Fares Manual database is free to use by the general public through (a) download and (b) programmatic query.

Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The National Rail Data Portal provided by National Rail allows registered users to access railway data on fares. Where users are requesting high volumes of data, the Terms and Conditions outlines that charges apply for high volume usage in some instances.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in Birmingham are part of the partnerships for inclusion of neurodiversity in schools programme.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)

Listed below are the schools in Birmingham which are part of the partnerships for inclusion of neurodiversity in schools programme (PINS).

Birmingham Local Authority Schools participating in PINS:

School data accurate as at 8 October 2025.

Found: Dr Scott Arthur; Mrs Elsie Blundell; Jacob Collier; Olly Glover; Alex Mayer; Baggy Shanker; Laurence Turner

Found: Dr Scott Arthur; Mrs Elsie Blundell; Jacob Collier; Olly Glover; Alex Mayer; Baggy Shanker; Laurence Turner

Found: ; Mrs Elsie Blundell; Jacob Collier; Olly Glover; Alex Mayer; Baggy Shanker; Rebecca Smith; Laurence Turner