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Written questions

Greg Smith

650 written questions tabled, most recent first.

22 Mar 2023 · Northern Ireland Office

Motor Sports: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will take steps to support a bid for a round of the World Rally Championship series to be hosted in Northern Ireland in 2024.

9 Mar 2023 · Treasury

Financial Services Compensation Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information his Department holds on the value of compensation awarded under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme in each financial year since 2018-19.

23 Feb 2023 · Department for Transport

High Speed Two: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will provide a breakdown of the roles undertaken by the 167 FTE staff employed by HS2 Ltd in its Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Directorate.

21 Feb 2023 · Department for Transport

High Speed Two: Communication

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the value for money of HS2 Ltd's £8,086,998 annual spend on communications and community engagement.

9 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Polisario Front

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of reports that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps allegedly supplied surface-to-air missiles to the Polisario Front.

9 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ethiopia: Unmanned Air Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of reports that Ethiopia allegedly used Iranian-made armed drones in the Tigray War.

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Plastics: Packaging

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2023 to Question 136755 on Plastics: Landfill, what assessment she has made of the steps that will need to be taken by producers to meet forthcomin

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2023 to Question 136754 on Packaging: Recycling, what steps her Department plans to take in adjusting the regulatory framework to deliver her Depar

9 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2023 to Question 136754 on Packaging: Recycling, what (a) aims and (b) objectives she has for the extended producer responsibility scheme in 2033;

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2023 to Question 136753 on Packaging: Recycling, whether the Impact Assessment needs to be reviewed in response to recent increases in costs for bu

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2023 to Question 136753 on Packaging: Recycling, how the funding model would work for obligated businesses paying into the Extended Producer Respon

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2023 to Question 136754 on Packaging: Recycling, what (a) representations and (b) feedback her Department has received from (i) industry representa

8 Feb 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2023 to Question 136754 on Packaging: Recycling, what the policy objective is of her Department’s eight-week visioning sprint programme.

6 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Planning Permission: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether it is the policy of the Planning Inspectorate Service to seek to discourage challenges by planning authorities against planning appeal decisions by the threat of incurring co

6 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Planning Permission: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what proportion of planning authority judicial review challenges to appeal decisions incur the award of costs against them.

2 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Radiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve radiotherapy services to reduce cancer treatment waiting times.

2 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to reduce the 62-day cancer waiting times from urgent referral to treatment.

2 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to update the reimbursement tariffs to incentivise modern forms of radiotherapy such as adaptive radiotherapy.

2 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional radiotherapy LINACS have been purchased to increase the overall fleet of LINACS used in the NHS in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2023.

2 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Radiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what specific steps he is taking to increase access to radiotherapy cancer treatments.

31 Jan 2023 · Treasury

Plastic Packaging Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of the Plastic Packaging Tax on trends in the rates of recycling for (a) flexible plastics and (b) films.

31 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Plastics: Landfill

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress she has made on the Resources on Waste Strategy ambition to reduce the amount of plastics ending up in landfills.

31 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will hold further discussions with representatives of the food and drink industry to help ensure the creation of an end-to-end circular economy in packaging recycling.

31 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed new extended producer responsibility scheme on (a) retailers, (b) food and drink manufacturers and (c) other

25 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Curlews: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies Langholm Moor Demonstration Project’s findings that when snares and other predator control methods are used, curlew nu

25 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Curlews: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's findings in the document entitled A future for curlew that the curlew po

23 Jan 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Energy Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2022 to Question 125503 on Prisons: Energy Supply, what is the total cost of works already started and fully committed to by (a) UK Power Networks and (b) other electrical sup

17 Jan 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Energy Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of works with (a) UK Power Networks and (b) other electrical supply contractors to install additional power to the (i) HMP Grendon and (ii) HMP Springhill

15 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is making to ensure there is sufficient infrastructure in Cancer Alliances to help deliver minimally invasive cancer therapies across England.

15 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiology: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to include radiologists and interventional radiologists in the NHS workforce strategy to ensure there are sufficient numbers of trained interventional radiologists to

Source: official written-questions record.