Alicia Kearns

28 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Crime and Policing Bill: Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the proposed duty to report child abuse in the Crime and Policing Bill would apply to all (a) religious and (b) faith-based bodies.

28 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Crime and Policing Bill: Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what meetings her Ministers have held with (a) religious or faith-based bodies and (b) their representatives on the proposed duty to report child abuse legislation in the Crime and Policing Bill.

28 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Soil

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to prevent the Rural Payments Agency's planned cancellation of payments under the SAM3: herbal leys scheme .

28 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Soil

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of ending payments from the SAM3: herbal leys scheme on farmers.

24 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Veterinary Medicines Directorate

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment on the effectiveness of the Veterinary Medicines Directorate since it removed the ability to submit reports online.

23 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Quarrying: Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will consider reforming the monitoring system for PM10 emissions from quarries; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of doing so on public health.

23 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Quarrying: Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the approved monitoring scheme for PM10 admissions from quarries.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Foot and Mouth Disease: Hungary and Slovakia

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to protect British (a) farmers and (b) produce from the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in (i) Hungary and (ii) Slovakia.

17 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

China: Foreign Relations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether any Cabinet colleagues have asked his Department to delay the China audit.

17 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

China: Foreign Relations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he expects the China audit to be (a) completed and (b) published.

17 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Treasury: China

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether (a) she and (b) her officials discussed the China audit with (i) Ministers and (ii) officials in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office ahead of her visit to the People's Republic of China.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

UK Biobank: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of allowing Chinese researchers access to medical records held by UK Biobank on national security.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Wind Power: Mingyang Smart Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Mingyang supplying the Green Volt offshore wind project on national security.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Clean Energy: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will publish the clean energy partnership memorandum of understanding signed with China in March 2025.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport: China Investment Corporation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the China Investment Company’s ownership stake in Heathrow airport on national security.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Nuclear Power Stations: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that nuclear power development does not use Chinese funding.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Universities: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce Chinese state influence in UK universities.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Motor Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of white fleet vehicles used by the military were produced in China.

17 Apr 2025 · Cabinet Office

Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre and National Security: Staff

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to reduce the number of people working (a) on national security and (b) in the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Video Games

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department plans to ban the game entitled No Mercy.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Emergency Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to create an exemption from proposed changes to Personal Independence Payments for people who have been medically retired from the emergency services.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food Standards Agency

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the Food Standards Agency.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Slaughterhouses: Inspections

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Food Standards Agency reducing the discount rate for official control fees on abattoirs.

17 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Jagtar Singh Johal

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his Indian counterpart on Jagtar Singh Johal’s continuing detention following his acquittal 4 March 2025.

17 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Jagtar Singh Johal

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has met with the family of Jagtar Singh Johal since his acquittal on 4 March 2025.

8 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Serbia: Riot Control Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will support the request by over 500,000 Serbian petitioners to the UN for an international investigation into the use of sonic weaponry against protestors

7 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what areas will local grooming gang inquiries be conducted in.

7 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with external organisations while developing the local grooming gang inquiries.

7 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Inquiries

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects the national framework for local grooming gang inquiries to be published.

7 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Inquiries

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress she has made on the establishing the local grooming gang inquiries.