Cat Smith MP: written questions
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Written questions
Multi-sport Grassroots Facilities Programme: TennisDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38612More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much and what proportion of the Multi-Sport Grassroots Facilities Programme she plans to spend on (a) tennis and (b) padel facilities in each of the next three years.
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone, regardless of background, should have access to and benefit from quality sport and physical activity opportunities.The majority of funding for grassroots sport is provided through Sport England, our a...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMulti-sport Grassroots Facilities Programme: WomenDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38365More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make it her policy to support (a) sports with higher levels of female participation, (b) tennis and (c) netball through the Multi-Sport Grassroots Facilities Programme.
Answer: The Government is dedicated to supporting every aspect of women’s sport and committed to ensuring all women and girls, no matter their background, have access to high quality facilities. On Friday 21 March, we confirmed that DCMS is investing £100 million...
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEpilepsy: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 903269More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support women with epilepsy.
Answer: The Government is committed to prioritising women’s health, placing women’s equality at the heart of our agenda and ensuring women’s health is never again neglected.At a national level, there are several initiatives supporting service improvement and bett...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSports: WomenDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38035More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many women and girls will be impacted by the Multi-Sport Grassroots Facilities Programme.
Answer: The Government is dedicated to supporting every aspect of women’s sport and committed to ensuring all women and girls, no matter their background, have access to high quality facilities. On Friday 21 March, we confirmed that DCMS is investing £100 million...
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCremationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34859More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of delays to the Environment Agency’s guidance on the operation of crematoria on relevant stakeholders.
Answer: The final updated Process Guidance Note 5/2 (24) is currently being reviewed by Ministers.
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCremationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34858More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Environment Agency’s guidance on the operation of crematoria will be (a) published and (b) brought into effect.
Answer: The final updated Process Guidance Note 5/2 (24) is under review.
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescription DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31499More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 27 January 2021 to Question 137239 on Prescription Drugs, what information his Department holds on the number of patients who have been prescribed drugs categorised
Answer: The following table shows the number of items dispensed and claimed for reimbursement for each of the categories requested, covering the most recently published 12-month period and the 12 months prior:Drug groupFinancial yearTotal number of itemsClonazepa...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescription DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31498More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many prescriptions were issued for each drug categorised under the (a) (i) clonazepam and (ii) other benzodiazepines, (b) z-drugs, (c) antidepressants, (d) opioids, (e) pregabalin and (f) gabap
Answer: The following table shows the number of items dispensed and claimed for reimbursement for each of the categories requested, covering the most recently published 12-month period and the 12 months prior:Drug groupFinancial yearTotal number of itemsClonazepa...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: AdvertisingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28991More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to consider evidence related to advertising when strengthening protections against gambling harms.
Answer: We are committed to considering the best available evidence, including on advertising, from a wide range of sources to inform decisions on strengthening protections. Developing quality evidence is a key priority for the statutory levy and funding will be ...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordYouth WorkDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26023More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support youth work as a profession by providing (a) financial support for students and (b) fieldwork placements.
Answer: DCMS works with the National Youth Agency (NYA) to fund bursaries for individuals to obtain youth work qualifications. Since 2019, £4 million of funding has been provided to the NYA via the Youth Worker Bursary Fund, allowing over 2,500 individuals from u...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordYouth Workers: LicensingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26022More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a revocable license to practice for youth workers.
Answer: DCMS funds the National Youth Agency to maintain a voluntary register of JNC Level 6 qualified youth workers and provide support to youth workers and organisations around safeguarding and risk management via their Safeguarding Hub.In November, this govern...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordYouth ServicesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26021More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure there is a minimum level of provision for youth services.
Answer: Local Authorities have a statutory duty to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, sufficient provision of educational and recreational leisure-time activities for young people in their area. We will be launching the Local Youth Transformation pilot ...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGender Dysphoria: Puberty Suppressing HormonesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25257More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the impact of the restriction of puberty blockers for the treatment of gender incongruence on the (a) physical and (b) mental health of young trans people.
Answer: On 11 December 2024 the Government introduced The Medicines (Gonadotrophin-Releasing Hormone Analogues) (Restrictions on Private Sales and Supplies) Order 2024, which came into effect on 1 January 2025. Alongside this legislation the Government published ...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordYouth Services: FinanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24185More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding allocated to the National Citizen Service will be redistributed to youth services.
Answer: Funding allocations for specific programmes will be communicated in due course, following the completion of business planning.
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademies: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22910More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish (a) the number and (b) a list of trust names of academy trusts in which the highest paid member of staff including employer pension contributions was paid (i) more than £200,000, (ii) more t
Answer: The department collates and publishes data annually in the academies sector annual report and accounts on the number of academy trusts with an individual staff member whose emoluments are above £100,000. The data is available in the attached spreadsheet a...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMulti-academy Trusts: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22909More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish a breakdown of the total number of trustees of schools multi-academy trusts that received remuneration either as a member of staff as well as a trustee, or in their capacity purely as truste
Answer: The department collates and publishes data annually in the academies sector annual report and accounts on the number of academy trusts with an individual staff member whose emoluments are above £100,000. The data is available in the attached spreadsheet a...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHeadteachers: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22908More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average pay was for headteachers in (a) primary and (b) secondary school in the maintained sector in each of the last five years.
Answer: Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.The following link prov...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMulti-academy Trusts: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22907More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2025 to Question 21323 on Multi-academy Trusts: Pay, if she will take steps to collate a table with the total number of academy trusts reporting (a) one, (b) two and (c) thre
Answer: The department collates and publishes data annually in the academies sector annual report and accounts on the number of academy trusts with an individual staff member whose emoluments are above £100,000. The data is available in the attached spreadsheet a...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPalestinians: DetaineesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make representations to his Israeli counterparts on the immediate release of Palestinian healthcare workers currently being detained without charge or trial.
Answer: Gazan civilians must be protected, and able to access effective healthcare. The UK has consistently raised concerns about the impact of this conflict on Gaza's healthcare system and medical staff, including reiterating the requirement for all parties to c...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMulti-academy Trusts: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21323More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department collects on the pay of multi-academy trust chief executives.
Answer: The Academy Trust Handbook sets out the requirements for academy trusts on executive pay, including reporting and publication. Academy trusts must:Publish their annual audited accounts, including the number of employees whose benefits exceeded £60,000 in ...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFireworks: SafetyDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20219More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2024 to Question 17421 on Fireworks: Safety, what discussions she has had with (a) businesses, (b) consumer groups and (c) charities on the adequacy of the Firework
Answer: The Government regularly engages with a wide range of stakeholders in relation to the impacts of fireworks. Our engagement includes with businesses, consumer groups and charities. The current regulatory framework is designed to support people to enjoy fir...
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNorthern Ireland Office: Alcoholic DrinksNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19348More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether Ministers in his Department have met with representatives of the alcohol industry since July 2024.
Answer: Details of ministers’ meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK. Data for the period of July to September 2024 will be published in due course.
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Alcoholic DrinksMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19347More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether ministers in her Department have met with representatives of the alcohol industry since July 2024.
Answer: Details of ministers’ meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK. Data for the period of July to September 2024 will be published in due course.
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Justice: Alcoholic DrinksMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19346More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether Ministers in his Department have met with representatives of the alcohol industry since July 2024.
Answer: Details of Ministers’ meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK. Data for the period of July to September 2024 will be published in due course.
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordScotland Office: Alcoholic DrinksScotland OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19345More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether Ministers in his Department have met with representatives of the alcohol industry since July 2024.
Answer: Details of ministers’ meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK. Data for the period of July to September 2024 will be published in due course.
Answered 18 Dec 2024
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