Lisa Smart MP: written questions 2025
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Power FailuresDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71926More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with Ofgem on holding electricity providers accountable for persistent power outages experienced by households.
Answer: Great Britain has one of the most reliable energy systems in the world and maintaining a secure electricity supply is a key priority for Government. The Department works closely with industry, regulators and other stakeholders to continually improve and m...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordOxygen: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71921More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2025 to Question 54442 on Oxygen: Medical Treatments, whether the recompression chambers in (a) Wirral, (b) Hull, (c) the Midlands and (d) Whipps Cross will close.
Answer: The hyperbaric oxygen therapy services in Wirral, Hull and the Midlands will continue to be commissioned by NHS England.From 1 October, the service currently commissioned for the London and South East regions will be delivered by a provider in Chichester....
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Illness: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71918More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients experiencing mental health problems are provided with comprehensive information on (a) potential side effects, (b) interactions with other medication
Answer: Any decision to prescribe a medicine should be made following a conversation between the prescriber and patient. This is known as shared decision making and should involve discussing with the patient the risks, benefits and possible consequences of differ...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Illness: Consent to Medical TreatmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71917More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to help support patients with mental health problems in exercising their right to refuse medication in NHS settings.
Answer: Any decision to prescribe a medicine should be made following a conversation between the prescriber and patient. This is known as shared decision making and should involve discussing with the patient the risks, benefits and possible consequences of differ...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71915More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures are in place to ensure that claimants can effectively challenge Universal Credit Reviews.
Answer: Universal Credit Claim Reviews (UCR) primary purpose is to identify any incorrectness in a Universal Credit (UC) claim and correct retrospectively. This includes both over and under payments and helps ensure the claimant is paid the right entitlement, tha...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71914More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help support Universal Credit claimants during the review process.
Answer: Universal Credit Claim Reviews (UCR) primary purpose is to identify any incorrectness in a Universal Credit (UC) claim and correct retrospectively. This includes both over and under payments and helps ensure the claimant is paid the right entitlement, tha...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordInsolvency: Redundancy PayDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71913More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what support is available to people who are dismissed from companies that later enter insolvency in submitting claims to the National Insurance Fund.
Answer: Where a dismissal occurs prior to an insolvency event the individual should contact the relevant officer appointed in the insolvency as a claim can still be made for payment from the National Insurance Fund. If the details of that officer are not known, t...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordInsolvency: Redundancy PayDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71912More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to amend the six-month limitation period for claiming payments from the National Insurance Fund in order that it begins from the date a company is confirmed as insolvent, rather t
Answer: The legal requirement to claim payment for redundancy in writing from the employer within six months of dismissal only applies to the redundancy element of the monies claimed from the National Insurance Fund. It does not apply to elements such as unpaid w...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMotorcycles: Seized ArticlesHome OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70205More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to help ensure that police officers have the (a) time and (b) resources to seize (i) illegally modified and (ii) off-road bikes.
Answer: The Home Office does not centrally hold data on the number of illegally modified or off-road bikes that have been seized by police in England and Wales, and could only collate that information for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionat...
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMotorcycles: Seized ArticlesHome OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70204More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) illegally modified and (b) off-road bikes have been seized by (i) Greater Manchester Police and (ii) all police forces in the last 12 months.
Answer: The Home Office does not centrally hold data on the number of illegally modified or off-road bikes that have been seized by police in England and Wales, and could only collate that information for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionat...
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: BullyingDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70203More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to (a) promote respect in workplaces across the UK and (b) support people who have been the victims of bullying at work.
Answer: The Government is promoting fairness, equality and wellbeing in the workplace through a range of measures in its Employment Rights Bill. For example, the Bill would require employers to take "all reasonable steps" to prevent sexual harassment of...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDementia: Hazel GroveDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70202More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people affected by dementia in the Hazel Grove constituency can access guaranteed specialist care.
Answer: The provision of dementia health care services is the responsibility of local integrated care boards (ICBs). We would expect ICBs to commission services, which may include dementia specialist nurses, based on local population needs, taking account of Nati...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordNeighbourhood Health Centres: DementiaDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70201More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of including dementia specialist nurses as core members within plans for a new Neighbourhood Health Service.
Answer: The Neighbourhood Health Service will bring together teams of professionals closer to people’s homes to work together to provide comprehensive care in the community. We expect neighbourhood teams and services to be designed in a way that reflects the spec...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAlcoholic Drinks: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70199More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of increasing draft duty relief for (a) consumers, (b) pubs and (c) breweries in Hazel Grove constituency.
Answer: The Chancellor’s draught rate cut at Autumn Budget 2024 applied to approximately 60% of the alcoholic drinks sold in pubs. This took a penny of duty off a typical strength pint.Draught beer and cider now pay 13.9% less in duty than their packaged equivale...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWarm Homes Plan: Private Rented HousingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70198More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to ensure private tenants are impacted by the Warm Homes Plan.
Answer: The Warm Homes Plan will help households, including those in the private rented sector, take up measures like solar panels, heat pumps, batteries and insulation, helping them save money on their bills and benefit from cleaner, cheaper heating. The Governm...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70197More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention plans to respond to the correspondence of 16 May 2025 from the hon. Member for Hazel Grove, ref L
Answer: The department provided a response on 29 August 2025.
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70196More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the correspondence of 29 May 2025 from the hon. Member for Hazel Grove, ref LS06945.
Answer: The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Baroness Merron) replied to the hon. Member on 1 August 2025.
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70195More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when the Minister for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories plans to respond to the correspondence of 12 May 2025 from the hon. Member for Hazel Grove, ref LS06284.
Answer: A response to the hon. member for Hazel Grove's correspondence of 12 May 2025, ref LS06284, was sent on 22 August.
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70194More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when the Minister for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories plans to respond to the correspondence of 7 May 2025 from the hon. Member for Hazel Grove, Ref LS06171.
Answer: A response to the hon. member for Hazel Grove's correspondence of 12 May 2025, ref LS06171, was sent on 22 August.
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70192More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the correspondence of 22 April 2025 from the hon. Member for Hazel Grove, Ref LS05024.
Answer: I replied to the hon. Member’s letter on 14 August 2025.
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70191More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the Minister for Gambling plans to respond to the correspondence of 24 March 2025 from the hon. Member for Hazel Grove, Ref LS04145.
Answer: DCMS did not receive the Hon Member’s letter until her office was contacted on 23 July, on receipt of this question. Baroness Twycross replied via return letter, with reference MC2025/07636/GT, on 26 August. We apologise for the delay.
Answered 18 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70190More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the correspondence of 10 June 2025 from the hon. Member for Hazel Grove, Ref LS07270.
Answer: The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Baroness Merron) replied to the hon. Member’s letter on 29 August 2025.
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGun SportsHome OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70189More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of changes to shotgun licensing on clay pigeon shooting.
Answer: The Government intends to have a public consultation later this year seeking views on the alignment of the controls on shotguns with other firearms.
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: AsbestosDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70188More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the rate at which asbestos is removed from schools in (a) Greater Manchester, (b) Stockport borough and (c) Hazel Grove constituency.
Answer: The department expects all local authorities, governing bodies and academy trusts to have robust plans in place to manage asbestos in school buildings effectively, in line with their legal duties, drawing on appropriate professional advice and our publish...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescription Drugs: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70187More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of allowing qualified non-medical prescribers to prescribe (a) dihydrocodeine, (b) testosterone and (c) other controlled drugs on wom
Answer: The Department supports non-medical professions to use legal mechanisms to prescribe, administer and/or supply medicines to patients, where it is safe and appropriate to do so. Some non-medical healthcare professionals train as independent prescribers, al...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
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