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992775

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to Answer of 17 October 2018 to Question 177342 on Railways: North West, if he will publish the public expenditure on railways in each region of the UK between 2013/14 to 2016/17.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	182284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>Figures on public sector expenditure at a regional level are part of the Government’s Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) statistics. These provide statistical allocations of public spending according to where the benefits of that spend are accrued.</p><p> </p><p>The latest CRA statistics, published by Treasury in November 2017, present data up to 2016-17 and are published at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/country-and-regional-analysis" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/country-and-regional-analysis</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The statistics include spend on transport by all public sector organisations including the Department for Transport, Local Authorities, Public Corporations (in the case of transport, this is mainly spend by London Underground) and other Government Departments including devolved administrations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The most recent statistics up to 2016/17 are presented in the table below. These show total public expenditure on national railways by region, and reflect the levels of both ‘capital’ and ‘current’ (resource) expenditure.</p><p> </p><p>It is important to note however that it is challenging, when talking about a system or network such as the railway, to accurately break down regional spending in a meaningful way.</p><p> </p><p>As a network, where the expenditure takes place on the railway is not always an accurate reflection of where the benefits are felt. An investment in one part of the country may improve the journeys of all the people passing through that area, providing network benefits that, whilst difficult to account for, are spread beyond the immediate region concerned. For example, improvements to the rail network in Birmingham can benefit services all the way from Edinburgh to Penzance.</p><p> </p><p>The life-spans of railway assets also present a challenge when considering the regional spread of infrastructure funding at any single point in time. The 25-40 year lives of some assets naturally mean that there will be a cyclical nature to replacing them that does not lend itself to an even split of funding across all regions within say a five year period. For example whilst a project like Crossrail has recently caused a spike in expenditure concentrated in London during construction, significant enhancement work on the West Coast Main Line was completed towards the end of the 2000s, meaning that further significant spend on that line could be expected to occur not over the past five years but in future periods[MS1] .</p><p> </p><p>Regarding spend in London, London has a substantial number of daily commuters and visitors, both domestically and internationally, who will be using and benefitting from the public transport networks in London but who aren’t residents in London. The unique scale and urban density of London by comparison to other parts of the country also means that it is particularly adapted to large scale public transport networks. Key parts of the rail network serve as international travel ‘hubs’ for the whole of the country. For geographic reasons, many of these are concentrated in London and the South East, for example, the UK's sole rail link to continental Europe (via St Pancras International and the Channel Tunnel[MS2] ).<strong>Total annual public sector expenditure on railways (£millions, nominal)</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong><strong><sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>426</p></td><td><p>557</p></td><td><p>1,017</p></td><td><p>883</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>201</p></td><td><p>197</p></td><td><p>444</p></td><td><p>332</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>3,870</p></td><td><p>4,149</p></td><td><p>5,774</p></td><td><p>6,796</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>196</p></td><td><p>185</p></td><td><p>258</p></td><td><p>291</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>893</p></td><td><p>758</p></td><td><p>1,476</p></td><td><p>1,262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>702</p></td><td><p>728</p></td><td><p>1,395</p></td><td><p>1,816</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>215</p></td><td><p>226</p></td><td><p>481</p></td><td><p>750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>394</p></td><td><p>521</p></td><td><p>932</p></td><td><p>872</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and The Humber</p></td><td><p>609</p></td><td><p>391</p></td><td><p>937</p></td><td><p>741</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>82</p></td><td><p>94</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>965</p></td><td><p>849</p></td><td><p>1,045</p></td><td><p>1,223</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>392</p></td><td><p>427</p></td><td><p>610</p></td><td><p>517</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Outside UK</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>85</p></td><td><p>78</p></td><td><p>103</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Expenditure</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 8,992 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 9,134 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 14,529 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 15,681 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em><sup>1</sup></em><em>Due to the reclassification of Network Rail into the public sector from 2015/16, care should be taken when making historical comparisons.</em></p><p> </p><p>[MS1]From evidence to the TSC</p><p>[MS2]From previous PQs.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 30/10/2018 16:59:48 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

988850

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Prescription Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason the views, experiences and opinions of individual professionals, researchers, commentators or patients will not be able to be included in his Department's, Prescribed medicines: an evidence review, published on 23 July 2018.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	180245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The review is a public health evidence review of the published evidence and available data. This process is distinct from a public inquiry, which would include individual testimony.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 24/10/2018 16:58:10 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

984757

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that higher education providers co-operate with electoral registration officers on the facilitation of electoral registration.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	177758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>On Friday 14 September, the Office for Students (OfS) published its guidance to Higher Education providers on the student electoral registration condition.This guidance is the final step in the implementation of the student electoral registration regulatory condition provided for in the Higher Education and Research Act 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The OfS guidance represents the first time that student electoral registration forms part of the Higher Education framework in England. In fulfilling the condition, Higher Education providers across England will be obliged to work with Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) to facilitate electoral registration amongst their student populations. The condition also reinforces an existing legal requirement for Higher Education providers to comply with ERO requests for information, necessary for maintaining complete and accurate electoral registers.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 16/10/2018 09:32:23 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

984374

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of the funding allocated to the UK railway network between 2014 and 2019 (a) has been and (b) is planned to be spent in (i) Lancashire and (ii) the North West.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	177342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p><strong>a) </strong><strong> Historical spending</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Figures on public sector expenditure at a regional level are part of the Government’s Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) statistics. These provide statistical allocations of public spending according to where the benefits of that spend are accrued.</p><p> </p><p>The statistics include spend on transport by all public sector organisations including the Department for Transport, Local Authorities, Public Corporations (in the case of transport, this is mainly spend by London Underground) and other Government Departments including devolved administrations.</p><p> </p><p>This information is available for regions (formerly government office regions) only, and therefore is unavailable for Lancashire.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent statistics up to 2016/17 are presented in the table below. These show total public expenditure on national railways for the North West, and reflect the levels of both ‘capital’ and ‘current’ (resource) expenditure.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Total annual public sector expenditure on railways (£millions, nominal)</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>893</p></td><td><p>758</p></td><td><p>1,476</p></td><td><p>1,262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total expenditure</p></td><td><p>8,992</p></td><td><p>9,134</p></td><td><p>14,529</p></td><td><p>15,681</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>North West as % of total expenditure</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8%</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><em><sup>1</sup></em><em>Due to the reclassification of Network Rail into the public sector from 2015/16, care should be taken when making historical comparisons.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>b) </strong><strong> Future spending</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Recent analysis published by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority shows that over the period 2017/18 to 2020/21, the North West will receive £1,353 of central government transport capital expenditure per head of population, the most of all English regions. This publication covers all transport modes, and does not disaggregate further by individual modes. It does not include ‘current’ expenditure or spend by Local Authorities or Public Corporations.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-infrastructure-and-construction-pipeline-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-infrastructure-and-construction-pipeline-2017</a> (page 45).</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 17/10/2018 09:15:35 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

982539

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Organisations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the recent report by London Youth entitled A space of our own: The role and value of youth organisations in strengthening communities, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that youth organisations are recognised as valuable parts of social infrastructure and are supported to strengthen communities.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	176382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>Government recognises the value of spaces for young people; a place of trust and safety, that provides high quality information, advice and guidance alongside positive activities that can help young people to develop skills, improve wellbeing and participate in their communities.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are primarily responsible for allocating public funding to youth services in their area. In addition, the Government is investing up to £40 million (in partnership with the Big Lottery Fund) in the Youth Investment Fund, which is supporting 90 youth organisations around the country to create and expand open access youth projects, and is expected to benefit up to 300,000 young people. This is part of a wider range of Government investment in services and opportunities for young people such as the #iwill fund and National Citizen Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 176384 question first answered 11/10/2018 15:16:46 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

982540

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Organisations: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure adequate funding for youth organisations.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	176383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for allocating public funding to youth services in their area. We believe they are best placed to know what is required in their communities.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside this, we are investing in youth organisations in a number of ways including:</p><ul><li>National Citizen Service (over £1bn has been allocated to NCS between 15/16 and 19/20) which is delivered via a supply chain network of over 100 organisations, including many youth organisations;</li><li>Creating a new, independent organisation that will administer a £90m fund using money from dormant accounts to address barriers to employment for young people, in areas of significant racial disparity. We have released £1.2m of this funding [today] to boost the capacity of vital grass-roots youth organisations working with young people in three areas of the country who are not in education, employment or training;</li><li>Up to £80 million (in partnership with Big Lottery Fund) through the Youth Investment and #iwill Funds in voluntary and community organisations that work with young people; and</li><li>The £2m Building Connections Fund, in partnership with the Co-op Foundation, which is available to youth organisations helping to support young people to avoid long-term loneliness.</li></ul> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/10/2018 15:20:13 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

982541

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Organisations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the recent London Youth report entitled A space of our own: The role and value of youth organisations in strengthening communities, what steps his Department is taking to support youth organisations to protect high quality physical spaces for young people.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	176384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>Government recognises the value of spaces for young people; a place of trust and safety, that provides high quality information, advice and guidance alongside positive activities that can help young people to develop skills, improve wellbeing and participate in their communities.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are primarily responsible for allocating public funding to youth services in their area. In addition, the Government is investing up to £40 million (in partnership with the Big Lottery Fund) in the Youth Investment Fund, which is supporting 90 youth organisations around the country to create and expand open access youth projects, and is expected to benefit up to 300,000 young people. This is part of a wider range of Government investment in services and opportunities for young people such as the #iwill fund and National Citizen Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 176382 question first answered 11/10/2018 15:16:46 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

983122

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Benzodiazepines: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2018 to Question HL9971 on Benzodiazepines: Misuse, for what reason there is a 10 year restriction on evidence for the Public Health England review on addiction to medicine; and who decided on that restriction.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	176385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The specification and search protocols for the rapid evidence assessment were based on Public Health England’s (PHE) previous experience of conducting evidence reviews and after consultation with members of the review’s expert reference group and other experts in the field.</p><p> </p><p>PHE has set a 10 year limit for collating research and other papers on this topic, so it can have a comprehensive set of current evidence, whilst being able to complete the report by spring 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Approximately 30,000 research papers and other reports will be examined and assessed for the rapid evidence assessment. Reports that reference and build upon research published before 2008 will also be accepted for the review.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 16/10/2018 16:33:37 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

971733

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Youth Work: Higher Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2018 to Question 169504, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of youth work courses offered by higher education institutions; and what steps he is taking to encourage more students to take up those courses in higher education.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	173634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>Higher education institutions (HEIs) are independent and have autonomy over which courses to deliver (such as Youth Work courses). It is the government’s role to help ensure that the higher education (HE) sector as a whole is responsive to, and able to, deliver demand for HE provision.</p><p>Whilst we do not hold accurate course figures, first degree entrants into Youth Work studies at UK HEIs have decreased by 26% between the period 2013 to 2014 and the period 2016 to 2017.</p><p>Through our regulatory reforms, we have established the Office for Students (OfS). This is a new regulator for the HE sector, and it has student choice at the heart of its agenda. OfS has introduced tools like the Teaching Excellence and Students Outcomes Framework and Longitudinal Education Outcomes data. These tools will put more information into the hands of prospective students. They will also allow students to better understand which course is right for them and the outcomes delivered by various courses at different institutions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/10/2018 15:49:55 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

969488

registered interest
date	07/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2018 to Question 169500 on Electoral Register, whether the Government plans to collate the information from local Electoral Registration Officers at the local authority level to evaluate the potential effect of the legislative changes on the level of anonymous voter registration.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave her on Thursday 6 September 2019.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 12/09/2018 15:37:58 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith