Alicia Kearns

8 Jun 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Organic Food: Import Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has considered the merits of allowing small-scale organic importers to use importers knowledge statement's rather than certificates of inspections when importing

8 Jun 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Wines: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of making all importers of organic wine register as organic businesses in the UK by February 2027.

8 Jun 2026 · Treasury

Charitable Donations: Ukraine

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Treasury has assessed the potential merits of introducing a Gift Aid-equivalent tax relief, or other bespoke tax exemption, for donations made by UK taxpayers to UNITED24 in support of Ukraine's defence

8 Jun 2026 · Department for Education

Organs: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has considered extending organ donation education to primary schools; and what assessment has been made of the potential merits of introducing age-appropriate teaching at primary level.

8 Jun 2026 · Department for Education

Organs: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to make organ donation education a compulsory topic in the national curriculum.

3 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Foreign Influence Registration Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme.

3 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Foreign Influence Registration Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civil servants in her Department are responsible for the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme, including reviewing the compliance of entities related to the People’s Republic of China.

3 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Foreign Influence Registration Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to identify and prosecute entities who should have registered under the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme.

3 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Foreign Influence Registration Scheme: China

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the reasons that no companies and organisations linked to the People's Republic of China have registered under the Foreign Influence Registration Schem

3 Jun 2026 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Geedge Networks

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any Government department has (a) used any technology created by or (b) entered into a formal contract with the Chinese company Geedge Networks.

1 Jun 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether Ministers from his Department took Government phones and laptops on recent delegations to the People's Republic of China.

21 May 2026 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: iFLYTEK

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government uses IFlyTek for any translation services.

20 May 2026 · Department for Education

Schools: Allergies

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 111844 on Schools: Allergies, which organisation will schools be required to report allergy incidents.

19 May 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Foreign Influence Registration Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department have (i) met with and (ii) received communications from (A) Groze Consulting Limited, (B) CGC reSolutions Ltd and (C

19 May 2026 · Home Office

Police: Languages

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2026 to Question 472, whether any of the enhanced technical solutions and technological tools rely on Chinese (a) technology and (b) equipment.

13 May 2026 · Home Office

Organised Crime: China

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent people with known links to Chinese organised crime groups from being treated as community representatives by public bodies.

13 May 2026 · Home Office

China: National Security

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of trends in the level of People's Republic of China-linked transnational repression involving criminal proxies targeting UK-based dissidents.

13 May 2026 · Home Office

Organised Crime: China

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has conducted an assessment of trends in links between Chinese Communist Party United Front organisations and individuals involved in (a) labour exploitation, (b) money launderi

13 May 2026 · Home Office

Police: Languages

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve police access to Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien and Eastern Min language capabilities for serious organised crime and national security investigations.

13 May 2026 · Home Office

Organised Crime: China

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of evidence in the Wilson Report on the direction of Chinese organised crime activity by the PRC.

13 May 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Taiwan: Asian Development Bank

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to Questions 129898 and HL14926 on Taiwan: International Relations, if she will correct the record and state Taiwan is a full member of the Asian Development B

27 Apr 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Taiwan: International Organisations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support Taiwan's inclusion in (a) the World Health Organisation, and (b) other multilateral organisations.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Police: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to support the use of artificial intelligence tools by police forces to help tackle language barriers in investigations, particularly those involving less widely

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Police: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will take steps to help ensure that police forces have access to an adequate number of security-vetted translators proficient in Chinese languages and dialects, including Hokkien and

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Police: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of Chinese language training, including in Hokkien and Hokchia dialects, provided to police officers investigating organised crime.

24 Apr 2026 · Ministry of Defence

Global Switch

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the decision by the Australian Department of Defence to migrate its systems out of Global Switch data centres following the 2016 acqui

24 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Global Switch

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department conducted a national security review of the acquisition of Global Switch by Elegant Jubilee Ltd in December 2016.

24 Apr 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Global Switch

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department used Global Switch infrastructure, including interconnection and on-ramp facilities, for communications with British overseas missions between 2016 and

24 Apr 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Global Switch: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the 2016 Chinese consortium acquisition of Global Switch on the company’s valuation and growth trajectory relative to the broader

24 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Home Office: Global Switch

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Home Office or any of its contractors used Global Switch data centres for the storage or transmission of government data between 2016 and 2026.