Lisa Smart

26 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dementia: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to issue updated guidance on the placement of dementia patients in hospital wards.

26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Community Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to take steps to ensure individuals subject to a community order are able to complete their unpaid work in a neighbouring local authority area.

26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Dangerous Driving: Sentencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will undertake a review of sentencing guidelines for causing serious injury by careless driving.

26 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Land Banking: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to replace Business Rates with a Land Value Tax collected by local authorities to disincentivise land banking by developers.

26 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of issues with the reconciliation of pension contributions by Capita on GPs.

26 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to hold Capita accountable where it fails to provide GPs with accurate annual pension statements under the Primary Care Support England scheme.

26 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Deductions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to review the priority order of Universal Credit deductions; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that child maintenance payments have prio

26 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Bank Services: Direct Debits

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2024 to Question 20062 on Bank Services: Direct Debits, whether her Department is taking steps to ensure that organisations receiving payments via Direct Debit always (a) verify

26 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any redress mechanisms are available for claimants who were misadvised by Jobcentre Plus staff to claim Universal Credit before their official migration date and consequently lost entitlement to

26 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Jobcentre Plus advisers provide (a) accurate and (b) comprehensive advice to claimants on (i) entitlement to transitional protection and (ii) other asp

26 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Dangerous Driving: Animals

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending sections 1 to 3A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to extend dangerous driving offences to include incidents causing the (a) death and (b) serious i

26 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to make Personal Independence Payment application forms more accessible for people with mental health issues; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (

26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Profession: Insolvency

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department is taking steps to support people who have been left personally liable for legal costs following the collapse of no-win-no-fee law firms.

26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Profession: Insolvency

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the impact of the administration of (a) SSB Law and (b) other firms on the finances of claimants whose legal cases were disrupted;

26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support homeowners with the cost of removing closed-cell spray foam insulation in order to secure a mortgage.

26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Insulation: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors to review current guidance on closed-cell spray foam insulation and its impact on mortgage l

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Clinical Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Oral Statement of 11 December 2024 on Puberty-suppressing Hormones, Official Report, column 914-916, whether the clinical trial into the use of puberty suppressing hormones fo

21 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Hate Crime: Transgender People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of hate crimes against transgender people.

21 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Hate Crime: Transgender People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the most recent statistics for hate crimes against transgender people are.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has specific time targets for processing Carer’s Allowance claims for individuals with an underlying entitlement.

6 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Property Rights: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with the Chief Land Registrar on ensuring that adverse possession claims are not granted for land designated as public open space or held for flood m

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Property Rights: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of land lost through adverse possession on local flood resilience.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Extracurricular Activities

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) childminders, (b) after-school clubs, (c) holiday clubs and schemes and (d) other childcare services are accessible to children with Special Educational Ne

6 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Death Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the process of issuing death certificates following the change to the responsibilities of medical examiners on 9 September 2024 does not lead to u

6 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Police: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps with police forces to review the (a) effectiveness of policies to place police officers potentially experiencing mental ill-health on restricted duties and (b) adequacy of (i) t

6 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Police: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to introduce mandatory mental health support for police officers who have been exposed to distressing or traumatic incidents.

28 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to advocate reform of the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction to better protect victims of domestic violence.

28 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Abduction: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Article 13(b) of the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, what steps she is taking to ensure the definition in UK law of "grave risk of harm

28 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Minister for Health and Secondary Care plans to respond to the correspondence of 6 November 2024 from the hon. Member for Hazel Grove on funding for Stepping Hill Hospital.

22 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Semaglutide

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) support and (b) encourage Integrated Care Boards to prescribe semaglutide for weight management.