Lisa Smart

26 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Windrush Commissioner

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what metrics will be used to assess the effectiveness of the Windrush Commissioner in assuring delivery of the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

26 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Windrush Commissioner

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Windrush Commissioner will have (a) statutory powers of investigation and (b) access to Home Office data to fulfil their role independently.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Arts: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2024 to Question 13614 on Arts: Finance, what progress her Department has made on ensuring that artists and creators are appropriately remunerated for the us

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Music Venues: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support grassroots music venues in Greater Manchester.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Work and Pensions: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of four-day working weeks.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase recruitment in NHS mental health services in Greater Manchester.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support visually impaired people in the workplace.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Parental Leave: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what progress has been made on the upcoming parental leave review; and if he will make a statement.

21 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Parental Leave: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what his planned timetable for when the review of the parental leave system will report.

21 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Parental Leave: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what progress his Department has made on the upcoming parental leave review; and if he will make a statement.

21 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Furniture Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had discussions with the Child Poverty Taskforce on (a) furnished tenancies and (b) the potential impact of the Decent Homes Standard on trends in the levels of f

21 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Furniture

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to update the Decent Homes Standard to provide for at least 10 per cent of homes for social rent to be offered furnished.

21 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dementia: Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will increase the number of dementia specialist nurses working in transitions of care roles.

21 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Continuing Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the future of NHS continuing healthcare will form part of the scope of the (a) NHS 10-year Health Plan for England and (b) Casey Commission.

21 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of companies closing and subsequently setting up a new similar company, with the result of (a) job losses, (b) workplace bullying and (c)

20 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Company Liquidations

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to introduce stricter limits on the number of businesses that an individual can (a) incorporate and (b) manage after multiple company liquidation

20 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Company Liquidations

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to improve regulatory oversight of company directors with a history of multiple liquidations.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has plans to review the application of (a) National Insurance contributions and (b) home responsibilities protection in cases where an individual was contracted out of the Additio

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of changes made by exam boards on pupils (a) with SEND and (b) with poor working memory.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

English Language and Mathematics: GCSE

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that (a) GCSE and (b) equivalent assessments in (i) Mathematics and (ii) English prioritise the evaluation of students' analytical and problem-solving skills.

19 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the requirement for children born in the UK to parents with refugee status to make a separate asylum claim to obtain refugee status on people wi

19 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce an (a) expedited and (b) automatic process for granting refugee status to children born in the UK to parents with existing refugee status.

19 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the requirement for children born in the UK to parents with refugee status making separate asylum claims to obtain refugee status on

18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Multiple Births

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the mental health of parents of (a) twin and (b) multiples.

18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Multiple Births

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the health risks for mothers giving birth to (a) twins and (b) multiples.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Offshore Industry: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to support workers in the North Sea Oil and Gas industry in the transition towards net zero.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of reducing funding for the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme on levels of economic growth.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department produced an impact assessment prior to the announcement of changes to the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is taking steps to enable the completion of projects (a) partly and (b) fully funded through the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme that are (i) soon-to-start and (ii) p

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of the potential implications of changes to disability benefits on health and social care services.