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UK PARLIAMENT · SITTING

Cat Smith

MP for Lancaster and Wyre · Labour · United Kingdom

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

The motions reflect the nature of us being a modern and welcoming workplace where MPs’ participation is supported, regardless of our health status—or, perhaps, parental leave—as such things, which can happen to any one of us, should not bar us from participating and representing our constituents’ views in this place.

SELECT COMMITTEE CHAIRS: PERIOD OF LEAVE · 2026-09-14 · READ IN HANSARD

On behalf of the Procedure Committee, I thank the Leader of the House for bringing forward these motions. I never had any doubt that he would be a radical and reforming Leader of the House, and the motions are evidence of that radical reforming nature that he has always had in him, which I am pleased to see.

SELECT COMMITTEE CHAIRS: PERIOD OF LEAVE · 2026-09-14 · READ IN HANSARD

Does the Leader of the House foresee us having a thorough and timely review of these schemes in time to assess whether they could be made permanent and whether reforms may need to be made to them at that stage? I welcome the motions and hope that the House will choose to support them.

SELECT COMMITTEE CHAIRS: PERIOD OF LEAVE · 2026-09-14 · READ IN HANSARD

I, too, am very much aware of this issue. In my constituency I have a property called Williamson Court, which is run by McCarthy & Stone, and everything that colleagues are saying sounds very familiar. Does the right hon.

RETIREMENT PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANIES: REGULATION · 2026-09-08 · READ IN HANSARD

Survivors of male violence often take a long time to rebuild their lives. I am supporting a constituent at the moment whose perpetrator is about to be released from prison but who is receiving no support from Lancaster city council, her housing provider, to enable her to relocate to another area so that the perpetrator is not released int…

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS · 2026-04-29 · READ IN HANSARD

The cause was never found—I will leave that hanging, and I pay tribute to them. There are a great many park home sites that are well run, and probably a lot of park home owners are listening to this and thinking, “Actually, I live somewhere that is pretty good.” But unfortunately, the rogue operators are now giving the entire industry a b…

PARK HOME OWNERS · 2026-04-28 · READ IN HANSARD

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  1. I wonder whether I might trouble the Minister. Will she commit to a meeting to discuss the specific issues that the new clause raises, looking particularly at the Russia report and whether we could find cross-party agreement on ensuring that our elections and democracy are safe and secure?

    ELECTIONS BILL (TWELFTH SITTING) · 2021-10-26 · READ IN HANSARD