Royston Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential implication for its polices of the announcement by Meta that it plans to discontinue its funding for the Community News Project on l...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the British Geological Society paper entitled the case for deep geothermal energy – unlocking investment at scale in the U...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department has made an assessment of the suitability of Southampton as a location for geothermal energy production.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2023 to Question 187133 on Fishing Vessels: Monitoring, what information his Department holds on what the numerous and significant issues were with the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of inshore vessel monitoring systems purchased by fishers were installed by each of the four approved suppliers before the removal of type approval for the systems prov...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to decide on the UK’s position on vaping for the Europe Preparatory Meeting for the Tenth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobac...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which UK Government delegates will be attending the Europe Preparatory Meeting for the Tenth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Turkey fr...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to support hydrogen storage technology.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of including (a) hydrogen and (b) natural gas storage technologies in salt caverns through the Energy Bill.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of using salt caverns below the former Royal Navy facility at Portland Port for (a) hydrogen and (b) natural gas storage.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report entitled Celebrating Marriage: A New Weddings Law published by the Law Commission on 18 July 2022, HC 557, what steps the Government is taking to implement the changes proposed to per...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2022 to Question 304 on Refugees: Ukraine, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of whether people who were granted leave under the (a) Ukraine Sponsorship scheme,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2022 to Question 304 on Refugees: Ukraine, how many people who were granted leave under the (a) Ukraine Sponsorship scheme, (b) Ukraine Family scheme and (c) Ukraine Extension s...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the accessibility of mortgages for Ukrainian refugees with a time limited permission to stay in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has taken recent steps to facilitate research on geothermal district heating.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an estimate of the number and proportion of domestic households that use (a) air source and (b) ground source heat pumps for their heating in Southampton Itchen constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help increase investment in geothermal technologies.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of deep geothermal energy on the rate of decarbonisation in the energy sector.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of geothermal energy in district heating network schemes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the (a) efficiency and (b) reliability of ground source heat pumps in residential properties.