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Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Cat Smith
Thursday 15th June 2023

(10 months, 3 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Cat Smith Portrait Cat Smith
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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.

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I must now suspend the House for two minutes.

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Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Cat Smith
Tuesday 6th June 2023

(11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Cat Smith Portrait Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood) (Lab)
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When will the Government announce capital funding for the new hospital in Lancaster: before or after 2030?

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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And Chorley, of course.

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Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Cat Smith
Thursday 1st December 2022

(1 year, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Cat Smith Portrait Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood) (Lab)
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3. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help support the voluntary sector in delivering youth services.

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Welcome back, Minister.

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Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Cat Smith
Monday 8th March 2021

(3 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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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 Portrait Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood) (Lab)
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What recent assessment she has made of disabled people’s experience of the personal independence payment application process.

Japan Free Trade Agreement

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Cat Smith
Monday 14th September 2020

(3 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I am sorry about that. We are going to go to Cat Smith.

Cat Smith Portrait Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood) (Lab)
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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?

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Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Cat Smith
Monday 18th May 2020

(3 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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We go over to the wonderful county of Lancashire and Cat Smith.

Cat Smith Portrait Cat Smith [V]
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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?