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Written Question
Wales Office: Alcoholic Drinks
Tuesday 17th December 2024

Asked by: Cat Smith (Labour - Lancaster and Wyre)

Question to the Wales Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether ministers in her Department have met with representatives of the alcohol industry since July 2024.

Answered by Jo Stevens - Secretary of State for Wales

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.


Written Question
Wales Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
Monday 12th June 2023

Asked by: Cat Smith (Labour - Lancaster and Wyre)

Question to the Wales Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, with reference to his Department’s publication of government procurement card spending over £500 for March 2023, what items his Department purchased from Barrow Hepburn and Gale on 19 March 2023; and for what purpose those items were purchased.

Answered by David T C Davies

The items purchased from Barrow Hepburn and Gale on 19 March 2023 were: Ministerial box (x2), Ministerial box repair (x1), normal Ministerial folder (x4), narrow Ministerial folder (x4) and Privy Seals box repair (x1).

The purpose of these purchases was to update and replace the folders and boxes used by Wales Office Ministers with His Majesty The King’s cypher, following the passing of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Feb 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"1. What assessment he has made of the effect on low-income families of the roll-out of universal credit in Wales. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Feb 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"Will the Government commit to ending the dehumanising work capability and personal independence payment assessments, which routinely find sick and disabled people fit for work, and commit to bring all these assessments in-house?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 May 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q4. I have a 14-year-old autistic constituent, who got on very well at primary school, but since moving to secondary school, its uncompromising one-size-fits-all approach has left him with a special school as his only option. What will the Chancellor do to make sure that when the independent expert group …..."
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