Cat Smith

3 Sep 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Campaigns

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the report, Digital campaigning, Increasing transparency for voters, published by the Electoral Commission in June 2018, what steps he is taking to ensure the adequacy of guidance on spending

3 Sep 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Campaigns

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the report, Digital campaigning, Increasing transparency for voters, published by the Electoral Commission in June 2018, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of enabling the Elec

3 Sep 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Campaigns

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the report, Digital campaigning, Increasing transparency for voters, published by the Electoral Commission in June 2018, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the ma

3 Sep 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Campaigns

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the report, Digital campaigning, Increasing transparency for voters, published by the Electoral Commission in June 2018, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of enabling the Elec

3 Sep 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Campaigns

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the report, Digital campaigning, Increasing transparency for voters, published by the Electoral Commission in June 2018, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of enabling the Elec

3 Sep 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Campaigns

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the report, Digital campaigning, Increasing transparency for voters, published by the Electoral Commission in June 2018, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of bringing forward

3 Sep 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Voluntary Work: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Figure 11 – Volunteering Schemes – International Comparators (2016) and the conclusion on page 16 of Cost Benchmark Report National Citizen Service Final Report, pu

3 Sep 2018 · Cabinet Office

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 May 2018 to Question 145350, what the cost of delivering the voter ID pilots and the postal voting pilots at the local government elections in May 2018 was in each local authority ar

3 Sep 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Loneliness: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he has made an assessment of the effect of open access youth work on tackling loneliness in young people; and if he will make a statement.

18 Jul 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections and Referendums: Campaigns

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has an agreed definition of joint spending in relation to campaign spending for elections and referendums.

11 Jul 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

National Citizen Service Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the National Citizen Service Trust has plans to collaborate with the Parliament Education Service in the summer of 2018 to increase citizenship and democratic engagement.

11 Jul 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

National Citizen Service Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2018 to Question 135849, whether a delivery partner of the National Citizen Service programme is permitted to profit from their service delivery contra

11 Jul 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

National Citizen Service Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2018 to Question 135849 on National Citizen Service Trust, whether around £9,781,587 has been written off by the Government for places that were not fi

10 Jul 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Freedom of Information

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2018 to Question 150180 on Elections: Freedom of Information, what steps the Government plans to take to (a) maintain the secrecy of voting and (b) ensure that voters can not be

10 Jul 2018 · Cabinet Office

General Elections: Proof of Identity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has estimated the potential cost of introducing voter ID requirements in every polling station throughout England for the next scheduled general election.

5 Jul 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Proof of Identity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to deliver the next round of voter ID pilots; and what the timetable is for the appropriate statutory orders to be laid.

26 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the report entitled Digital campaigning: Increasing transparency for voters, published by the Electoral Commission in June 2018, what the Government's policy is on the recommendation that each

26 Jun 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Voting Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent changes the Government has made to prisoners’ voting rights; and what guidance has been issued on that subject to (a) prison governors and (b) prisoners in England and Wales.

21 Jun 2018 · Women and Equalities

Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference the Government 's recent evaluation of the 2012-2015 Access to Elected Office Fund, for what reason the Government has allocated funding for only 12 months.

21 Jun 2018 · Women and Equalities

Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to Written Ministerial Statement of 17 May 2019 on Access to Elected Office for Disabled People, HCWS695 if she will meet with the cross-party campaign group More United and the three parliamentary ca

21 Jun 2018 · Women and Equalities

Elections: Disability

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Written Statement of 17 May 2018, HCWS695, whether new legislation is required before funds are administered to disabled candidates for local elections in May 2019.

21 Jun 2018 · Women and Equalities

Elections: Disability

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Written Statement of 17 May 2018, HCWS695, whether those funds are available to parliamentary candidates seeking (a) to stand in any parliamentary by-elections that may occur between June

14 Jun 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Services: Capital Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2018 to Question 148923 on Youth Services: Capital Investment, if he will publish the programmes that were allocated funding from the £667m for youth pr

12 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Proof of Identity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department conducted it's own equality impact assessment of voter ID pilots separate to those conducted by the local authorities participating in the pilot schemes prior to the delivery of those sche

11 Jun 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2018 to Question 148944, how many times officials of his Department have met with officials of the (a) Cabinet Office, (b) Department for Education, (c)

7 Jun 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Voluntary Work: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on youth social action in the 2017-2018 financial year.

5 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Freedom of Information

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2018 to Question 121010, whether he plans to extend the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to apply to (a) an acting returning officer appointed to discharge a returning officer

5 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Election Offences: Fines

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of increasing fines payable for breaches of election rules.

5 Jun 2018 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission: Internet

To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what progress has been made to date on the Commission's project to review all the guidance listed on its website.

5 Jun 2018 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

Local Government: Elections

To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, with reference to the correspondence of April 2018 between the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Minister for the Cabine