Asked by: Luke Taylor (Liberal Democrat - Sutton and Cheam)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of disbanding the Metropolitan Police’s Roads and Transport Policing Command on road safety in London.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
Decisions on force structures and resource deployment are operational matters. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner is best placed to determine how roads policing resources are deployed in response to the threats, risks and demands facing the Metropolitan area.
Effective roads policing plays an important role in keeping our roads safe and reducing the risk of death and serious injury. In making operational decisions, chief officers are expected to exercise their powers proportionately, with due regard to public safety and professional standards. This helps support effective road traffic enforcement and public confidence in policing.
Asked by: Luke Taylor (Liberal Democrat - Sutton and Cheam)
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether he plans to introduce legislation requiring businesses to undertake mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence.
Answered by Blair McDougall - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) (Jointly with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
In the Trade Strategy, the Government launched the Responsible Business Conduct Review, an evidence-based appraisal of the UK’s current policy approach to responsible business conduct, its impact and options to strengthen it further. This included consideration of the merits of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence. The review has been completed. With the formation of a new government, we are considering the findings with fresh eyes and will set out our position in due course.
Asked by: Luke Taylor (Liberal Democrat - Sutton and Cheam)
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, when he plans to (a) publish the completed Responsible Business Conduct Review and (b) what his Department's timetable is for responding to its findings.
Answered by Blair McDougall - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) (Jointly with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
In the Trade Strategy, the Government launched the Responsible Business Conduct Review, an evidence-based appraisal of the UK’s current policy approach to responsible business conduct, its impact and options to strengthen it further. This included consideration of the merits of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence. The review has been completed. With the formation of a new government, we are considering the findings with fresh eyes and will set out our position in due course.
Asked by: Luke Taylor (Liberal Democrat - Sutton and Cheam)
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether employers found to have underpaid statutory holiday pay as a result of payroll or administrative errors will be subject to public naming by the Fair Work Agency when it begins enforcement of statutory holiday pay in 2027.
Answered by Kate Dearden - Minister of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade)
The recent Government consultation on enforcement of statutory holiday pay sought views on whether employers found to have underpaid holiday pay should be subject to public naming. The consultation closed on 22 September. The Government is currently considering all submissions and will publish its response in due course.
Asked by: Luke Taylor (Liberal Democrat - Sutton and Cheam)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to exempt (a) campsites, (b) activity centres and (c) other overnight accommodation used by voluntary youth organisations from the proposed Overnight Visitor Levy.
Answered by Jim McMahon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
Local leaders will be able to choose to introduce a levy as a way to raise money to support growth in their regions. This will apply to short-term, commercially let overnight accommodation. Accommodation or land uses which are not provided on a commercial basis will not be in scope of the levy. Strategic authorities will also have the option, subject to consultation, to exempt certain types of accommodation in their areas. This could include tent pitches, touring caravan pitches and dormitory style accommodation, such as hostels.
Asked by: Luke Taylor (Liberal Democrat - Sutton and Cheam)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons offer the provision of braille transcription services for individuals with visual impairments.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Braille translation services are available in publicly operated prisons through the national translation and transcription contract, which is currently held by thebigword Group Limited. Privately managed prisons must have arrangements in place using either this national contract or equivalent arrangements.
Asked by: Luke Taylor (Liberal Democrat - Sutton and Cheam)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has considered the potential merits of introducing an interim access pathway in England for omaveloxolone.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided on 29 June in response to Question 11724.
Asked by: Luke Taylor (Liberal Democrat - Sutton and Cheam)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet Ataxia UK to discuss the potential merits of including omaveloxolone in the pilot scheme.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided on 29 June in response to Question 11724.
Asked by: Luke Taylor (Liberal Democrat - Sutton and Cheam)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help stop organised crime involving vehicle theft.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Government recognises the severe impacts that vehicle theft has on individuals, businesses and industry.
The Government is determined to ensure that crimes such as these receive the response they deserve. A central aim of the Government’s police reforms is to protect and revitalise neighbourhood policing: by lifting national responsibilities from local forces, we will allow the police to focus on tackling local issues, such as vehicle crime. We have also strengthened neighbourhood policing capacity, with a further 3,000 police officers and police community support officers placed into neighbourhood roles in less than a year.
The Government is also ensuring that the police have the powers necessary to tackle vehicle crime. The Crime and Policing Act 2026 introduces two new offences criminalising the possession, importation, making, adapting and supply of electronic devices used in vehicle theft.
Since 2024, the Home Office has provided almost £1 million For the National Vehicle Crime Reduction Partnership, to strengthen the enforcement response to organised vehicle theft and export. This funding has supported enforcement activity inland and at ports, including funding additional staff, police training and specialist equipment. A further £300,000 has been committed this year.
Information on stolen vehicles is already shared across law enforcement and with relevant partners to support the prevention, detection and investigation of vehicle crime. Current arrangements also support the circulation of stolen vehicle information through national and international policing channels, including INTERPOL databases. Decisions on the wider public release of stolen vehicle data would need careful consideration of operational impacts, including whether publication could inadvertently assist criminal activity.
Asked by: Luke Taylor (Liberal Democrat - Sutton and Cheam)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to make data showing whether vehicles have been reported stolen publicly available free of charge.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Government recognises the severe impacts that vehicle theft has on individuals, businesses and industry.
The Government is determined to ensure that crimes such as these receive the response they deserve. A central aim of the Government’s police reforms is to protect and revitalise neighbourhood policing: by lifting national responsibilities from local forces, we will allow the police to focus on tackling local issues, such as vehicle crime. We have also strengthened neighbourhood policing capacity, with a further 3,000 police officers and police community support officers placed into neighbourhood roles in less than a year.
The Government is also ensuring that the police have the powers necessary to tackle vehicle crime. The Crime and Policing Act 2026 introduces two new offences criminalising the possession, importation, making, adapting and supply of electronic devices used in vehicle theft.
Since 2024, the Home Office has provided almost £1 million For the National Vehicle Crime Reduction Partnership, to strengthen the enforcement response to organised vehicle theft and export. This funding has supported enforcement activity inland and at ports, including funding additional staff, police training and specialist equipment. A further £300,000 has been committed this year.
Information on stolen vehicles is already shared across law enforcement and with relevant partners to support the prevention, detection and investigation of vehicle crime. Current arrangements also support the circulation of stolen vehicle information through national and international policing channels, including INTERPOL databases. Decisions on the wider public release of stolen vehicle data would need careful consideration of operational impacts, including whether publication could inadvertently assist criminal activity.