Written questions

Cat Smith

1,750 written questions tabled, most recent first.

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Young People

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to encourage youth engagement in (a) national and (b) local elections.

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the number of cases of alleged electoral fraud relating to nomination that took place at the 2018 local government elections.

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register: Young People

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to replicate the Northern Ireland electoral registration schools initiative to increase electoral registration among people aged 16 in England.

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government took to encourage people unable to vote in person to apply for a postal vote for the 2018 local government elections.

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register: Students

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to work with university, college and further education providers to integrate electoral registration into academic enrolment prior to the commencement of the 2018-19 academic

1 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, what steps he is taking to promote participation of National Citizen Service in Northern Ireland.

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Finance

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to A regulatory review of the UK’s party and election finance laws: Recommendations for Change, published by the Electroal Commission in June 2013, what assessment he has made of the implications

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with Ministers of the devolved administrations on increasing the levels of voter registration.

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Ballot Papers

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the efficacy of the design of ballot papers for people who have difficulties of sight.

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whats steps his Department took to increase voter registration prior to the 2018 local government elections.

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many non-UK EU citizens living in the UK voted in the 2018 local government elections.

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Living Wage: Young People

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people between 16 and 24 years old in full-time employment are paid less than the living wage, as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Living Wage: Young People

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people between 16 and 24 years old are paid less than the living wage, as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.

1 Jun 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Bed and Breakfast Accommodation: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many (a) 16 to 24 year old and (b) 25 to 30 year old homeless people have been temporarily housed in bed and breakfast accommodation by their local authority in each of the l

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total cost was of the transfer to Individual Electoral Registration; and what proportion of such costs was borne by local government.

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds from electoral registration officers on the number of names removed from electoral registers in each local authority, for each permissible reason, in each of the last five y

1 Jun 2018 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to investigate the reasons for changes in the level of electoral registration in each local authority in each of the last three years.

17 May 2018 · Cabinet Office

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many additional polling station staff in each local authority area were required to deliver the local government election voter ID pilots; and what the average number was of additional staff at a single poll

17 May 2018 · Cabinet Office

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much it cost to deliver the local government election postal voting pilots in each local authority area where the scheme was introduced.

17 May 2018 · Cabinet Office

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much it cost to deliver the local government voter ID pilots in each of the five local authority areas where the scheme was introduced.

30 Apr 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

European Youth Work Convention

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to uphold the Declaration of the Second European Youth Work Convention in 2015.

25 Apr 2018 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register: Young People

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department has taken to increase public awareness of voter registration in England at the age of 16 in the last 12 months.

17 Apr 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 funding his Department has allocated to each regional delivery partner of the National Citizen Service programme in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.