Cat Smith

13 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 many times the Government has been notified of a provider of National Citizen Service that has (a) fallen into serious financial difficulty and (b) breached their contract with serio

13 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, what steps his Department is taking to minimise the risk of paying for unfilled places with new partner contracts for the National Citizen Service programme.

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

National Citizen Service Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with the National Citizens Service Trust on its claims against the liquated provider Engage4Life Limited; and what estimate he has made of the cost to

13 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, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2017 to Question 119896, what estimate her Department has made of the unit cost for National Citizen Service places in 2018.

13 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, when the next commissioning round of National Citizen Service (NCS) will take place; and what assessment he has made of whether his Department has delivered on its pledge to develop a ro

13 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, with reference to the Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts, on the Forty Sixth Report of Sessions 2016-2017, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, National Citizen

13 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, what target his Department has set for the number of participations on the National Citizens Service programme for (a) 2018 and (b) 2017-18; and when the results will be published.

13 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, with reference to the Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts, Forty Sixth Report of Sessions 2016-2017, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, National Citizen Service

13 Apr 2018 · Cabinet Office

Voting Rights: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 29 March 2018 to Question 134171, if he will publish every individual response to his Department's consultation, A democracy that works for everyone: British citizens overseas, in addit

13 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, for what reason there is a variation in cost between National Citizen Service delivery partner providers for (a) the activity based residential from £201 to £725 and (b) the skills based

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

National Citizen Service Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what progress has been made on the recruitment of board members to the National Citizen Service Trust; and what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the time taken for tha

13 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, whether the Government is going to meet its target date of April 2018 for moving the management of the National Citizen Service from a community interest company to a royal chartered pub

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

National Citizen Service Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has put in place to ensure that the National Citizen Service (NCS) Trust has the governance, leadership and expertise necessary to deliver the expansion of the

13 Apr 2018 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the feasibility of introducing a centralised national electoral register.

13 Apr 2018 · Cabinet Office

Absent Voting: Pilot Schemes

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the local statutory orders for the proxy and postal voting pilots in Peterborough, Slough and Tower Hamlets.

13 Apr 2018 · Cabinet Office

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure good cyber security practices are followed for the systems that support the delivery of UK elections ahead of local government elections in May.

13 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, what steps the Government is taking to reduce (a) regional and national oversight, (b) quality assurance, (c) evaluation (d) central marketing and (e) other non-core operational delivery

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

Youth Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to strengthen the evidence base of open access youth work and non-formal learning opportunities for young people.

13 Apr 2018 · Department for Transport

M6: Lancashire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will instruct Highways England to carry out a survey of the drainage pipes buried in the verges of the M6 where it runs close to Galgate.

26 Mar 2018 · Cabinet Office

Voting Rights: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the responses to his Department's consultation, A democracy that works for everyone: British citizens overseas, published on 7 October 2016.

22 Mar 2018 · Cabinet Office

Absent Voting

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how his Department plans to evaluate the postal vote pilots; what indicators will be used to measure the success of those pilots; what methods will be used to collect the information relating to those pilots; wh

22 Mar 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections: Proof of Identity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how his Department plans to evaluate the voter ID pilot; what indicators will be used to measure the success of that pilot; what methods will be used to collect information related to that pilot; who will be res

14 Mar 2018 · Cabinet Office

Returning Officers

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to review the appointment of Regional Returning Officers.

14 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescription Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2018 to Question 128033, on prescription drugs, when his Department first became aware of the NHS Business Services Authority data showing the number of unique

14 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Schools: Polling Stations

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to address concerns over interruption to schooling arising from the use of schools as polling places ahead of the local government elections in May.

14 Mar 2018 · Cabinet Office

Elections

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to simplify electoral law.

14 Mar 2018 · Cabinet Office

Democracy: Scotland

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of changing the timing of National Democracy Week to avoid it coinciding with the school holidays in Scotland; and what steps he is taking to ensure that sch

14 Mar 2018 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register: Students

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking with the Department for Education to implement the student electoral registration provision of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017.

12 Mar 2018 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

Elections: Proof of Identity

To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, in respect of the areas where Voter ID pilots are being carried out this spring, and where the Commission plans to evaluate those p

12 Mar 2018 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

Elections: Proof of Identity

To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, in respect of the areas where Voter ID pilots are being carried out this spring, and where the Commission plans to evaluate those p