Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Cat Smith and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 15th June 2023 Commons Chamber

[Cat Smith]

The Electoral Commission will shortly be publishing its report on the local government elections in May. It will include data collected by returning officers, but also public polling to catch the people who did not get as far as the polling station. The issue of equality impact assessments is a matter for the Government, and I would encourage the hon. Lady to raise it during the upcoming questions to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

[Mr Speaker]

I must now suspend the House for two minutes.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Cat Smith and Lindsay Hoyle

Tuesday 6th June 2023 Commons Chamber

[Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood) (Lab)]

When will the Government announce capital funding for the new hospital in Lancaster: before or after 2030?

[Mr Speaker]

And Chorley, of course.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Cat Smith and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 1st December 2022 Commons Chamber

[Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood) (Lab)]

3. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help support the voluntary sector in delivering youth services.

[Mr Speaker]

Welcome back, Minister.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Stuart Andrew)]

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker.

This Government know the importance of local youth services, and we have guaranteed that by 2025 every young person in England will have access to regular clubs and activities, adventures away from home and volunteering opportunities. That is a clear commitment based on feedback from 6,000 young people, supported by £560 million of funding.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Cat Smith and Lindsay Hoyle

Monday 8th March 2021 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I remind Members to put their masks back on if they can. I am sure that those who have not done so have a certificate, because they would not want to put the rest of us at risk.

[Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood) (Lab)]

What recent assessment she has made of disabled people’s experience of the personal independence payment application process.

Japan Free Trade Agreement

Debate between Cat Smith and Lindsay Hoyle

Monday 14th September 2020 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I am sorry about that. We are going to go to Cat Smith.

[Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood) (Lab)]

Once the details of this trade deal are published, the Japanese Parliament will get the opportunity to debate and vote on it. Will the Secretary of State be clear about whether parliamentarians in both Houses of this Parliament will get the same rights as our Japanese colleagues?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Cat Smith and Lindsay Hoyle

Monday 18th May 2020 Commons Chamber

[The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (John Glen)]

The Government have recently allocated up to an additional £617 million to local authorities to enable them to give grants to businesses excluded from existing schemes. That will enable many thousands of businesses in the situation described by the hon. Member to receive cash grants.

[Mr Speaker]

We go over to the wonderful county of Lancashire and Cat Smith.

[Cat Smith [V]]

Will the Minister ask local authorities to report on the extent to which landlords are passing on the grants to tenants, because it is not just in Lancaster and Fleetwood that we are seeing widespread evidence that that is not occurring?