Cat Smith

13 Oct 2015 · Department for Transport

Shipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total cost was of his Department's Maritime Growth Study, published in September 2015; how many hours staff in his Department worked on that study; and when he plans to respond to its recommendations.

13 Oct 2015 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Trade Unions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what meetings he has planned over the next six months with maritime trades unions on the recommendations of his Department's Maritime Growth Study published in September 2015.

13 Oct 2015 · Department for Transport

Shipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what meetings he has planned over the next six months with maritime training colleges to discuss the recommendations of the Maritime Growth Study.

13 Oct 2015 · Department for Transport

Shipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the current status is of the Shipping Strategic Plans for the (a) shipping, (b) ports and (c) business services sectors of the UK maritime industry; and if he will make a statement.

13 Oct 2015 · Department for Transport

Shipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to increase the supply of UK (a) domiciled and (b) trained seafarers to the shipping industry.

13 Oct 2015 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Shipping

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on amending the immigration system to increase the supply of non-domiciled shore-based workers to the UK maritime sector.

13 Oct 2015 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Shipping

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on amending the immigration system to increase the supply of non-domiciled seafarers to the UK shipping industry.

9 Oct 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Employment: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps the Government plans to take to reduce the incidence of women being asked about their plans to have children during job interviews with prospective employers.

9 Oct 2015 · Department for Transport

Trams: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to include travel on trams in the pensioners' bus pass.

9 Oct 2015 · Department for Transport

Railways: Lancashire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has for the reopening of disused railway lines in Lancashire.

9 Oct 2015 · Department for Transport

Fleetwood Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will arrange to retain the points connecting Poulton-le-Fylde's disused railway line to Fleetwood.

9 Oct 2015 · Department for Transport

Railways: Lancashire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with Network Rail on the electrification of the Blackpool North railway line and the proposed removal of points which connect this line with a disused railway line connecting

9 Oct 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Employment Tribunals Service: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of evidence from research on the proportion of women subject to pregnancy or maternity-related discrimination at work who issued an employment tribunal claim fo

9 Oct 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

International Animal Welfare Ministerial Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2015 to Question 8416, which Minister will be chairing the Inter-Ministerial Group on International Animal Welfare.

9 Oct 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Refuges

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he plans to take to ensure that women's refuges (a) have a sustainable source of funding and (b) continue to enable women to move between local authority areas after 31 March 2

9 Oct 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Refuges

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that women's refuges have a sustainable source of funding after the current funding arrangements end on 31 March 2016.

9 Oct 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Flexible Working: Parents

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of evidence from research on the extent to which working parents may wish to work more flexibly, but are deterred from making a formal flexible working request

14 Sep 2015 · HM Treasury

Social Security Benefits

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2015 to Question 8088, if he will make it his policy to conduct an assessment of the potential effect of proposed changes to tax credits and housing benefit in the Summer Budget

7 Sep 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Hungary: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the Hungarian government on the treatment of refugees in Hungary.

4 Sep 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

International Animal Welfare Ministerial Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the current priorities are for the Inter-Ministerial Group on International Animal Welfare; and if she will make a statement.

4 Sep 2015 · Department for International Development

Ghana: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support the UK is providing to disabled people in Ghana.

4 Sep 2015 · Prime Minister

Fracking

To ask the Prime Minister, whether he read the report, Shale Gas: Rural Economy Impacts, published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in March 2014.

4 Sep 2015 · Department for Energy and Climate Change

Fracking

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether her Department discussed (a) the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs report, Shale Gas: Rural Economy Impacts, published in redacted form in March 2014 and (b) the timing o

21 Jul 2015 · Department for Transport

Rolling Stock: North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department had with Northern Rail on the use of the Class 37 rolling stock on the Carlisle-Barrow-Lancaster rail line.

20 Jul 2015 · HM Treasury

Social Security Benefits

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will conduct an assessment of the potential effect of proposed changes to tax credits and housing benefit in the Summer Budget 2015 on the number of abortions in the UK.

16 Jul 2015 · HM Treasury

Social Security Benefits

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of proposed changes to tax credits and housing benefit in the Summer Budget 2015 on long-term trends in family size.

13 Jul 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Export Controls: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he will publish the review of extant export licensing and the licensing of new applications for Israel.

9 Jul 2015 · Ministry of Justice

Information Commissioner's Office: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department is responsible for signing-off pay levels at the Information Commissioner's Office; and whether his Department objected to payments made to senior executives in 2014.

9 Jul 2015 · HM Treasury

Information Commissioner's Office: Fines

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 57 of the Information Commission's office's annual report 2014-15, under what statutory provision the Treasury imposes a financial penalty on that office; how the amount of that penalty was arr

2 Jul 2015 · Department for International Development

Mediterranean Sea: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to address the root causes of attempted migration to Europe across the Mediterranean.