Cat Smith

21 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Lancashire and South Cumbria New Hospitals Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding the Lancashire and South Cumbria New Hospitals Programme scheme had received up to the end of the 2023-24 financial year.

21 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Lancashire and South Cumbria New Hospitals Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of Lancashire and South Cumbria New Hospitals Programme scheme.

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tennis: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of access to tennis facilities on the physical activity levels of (a) older people, (b) disabled people, (c) women and girls and (d) other l

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tennis: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of access to indoor tennis facilities on the level of participation in disability tennis.

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tennis: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding her Department plans to provide for tennis facilities in each of the next three financial years.

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tennis: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the provision of accessible (a) indoor and (b) covered tennis courts in underserved communities.

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tennis: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the provision of (a) indoor and (b) covered tennis facilities, in the context of her Department's target for increasing the number of people

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tennis: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help increase access to (a) affordable and (b) covered or indoor community tennis courts.

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tennis: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding her Department has provided for (a) covered and (b) indoor (i) tennis and (ii) padel courts in each of the last five years.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dogs: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to ban the import of dogs with cropped ears.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Reindeer: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure the welfare of reindeer used at seasonal events in winter 2024-25.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

ADHD: Methylphenidate

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the availability at pharmacies of methylphenidate medication for people with ADHD.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Epilepsy: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the availability of anti-convulsant medicines to control epilepsy.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Bicycles: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an estimate of the average economic benefit of buying a bicycle to (a) an individual and (b) society.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Bicycles: Voucher Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the report entitled The cycling opportunity, published by Sustrans on 11 September 2024.

11 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have deferred their State Pension.

10 Sep 2024 · Department for Education

Further Education: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to increase pay in the further education sector.

30 Jul 2024 · Home Office

Bottles: Plastics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the aim of the Bottle Stop campaign to ensure that all bottles in clubs and bars are plastic instead of glass.

30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps with representatives from the farming sector to support people with mental health issues in rural communities.

30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to help ensure mental health services are accessible to patients in rural communities.

30 Jul 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he plans to take to use the UK's position as penholder for Sudan at the UN Security C Council to press for (a) a ceasefire before peace talks in August, (b) adhere

29 Jul 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking with humanitarian groups and partners in Sudan to provide (a) humanitarian aid and (b) support for (i) food systems and (ii) local agricul

24 Jul 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2024 to Question 210, whether he has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the fiscal circumstances within which the level

23 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to launch a consultation on which activities should be banned from being (a) advertised and (b) offered for sale under the Animals (Low-Welfare Activities

23 Jul 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish her Department's response to the consultation entitled Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability green paper, published in April 2024.

17 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Puberty Suppressing Hormones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet with (a) young trans young people and (b) their families to discuss the prescription of puberty blockers for the treatment of gender incongruence.

17 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential risks of harm being caused by restrictions on puberty blockers for treatments of gender incongruence.

17 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Puberty Suppressing Hormones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timetable is for the clinical trial being conducted on the use of puberty blockers for the treatment of gender incongruence.

17 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Puberty Suppressing Hormones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a comparative assessment of the UK’s position on the prescription of puberty blockers for the treatment of gender incongruence with that of other European countries.

17 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Puberty Suppressing Hormones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that those proscribed puberty blockers for the treatment of gender incongruence will continue to receive them.