Cat Smith MP: written questions 2025
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Gambling: 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
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