Alicia Kearns MP: written questions
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Broadband and Mobile Phones: South KestevenDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22095More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to improve mobile phone and broadband access in South Kesteven.
Answer: Project Gigabit is the government’s programme to deliver gigabit-capable broadband to UK premises that are not included in suppliers' commercial plans. Eligible premises in the district council area of South Kesteven are set to benefit from three Project ...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: PatientsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22094More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average maximum number of patients registered per GP practice in England is.
Answer: The median number of patients registered at a general practice in England in December 2024 was 8,799.
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22093More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding has been allocated to support areas at risk of flooding; and when he plans to announce these.
Answer: To ensure we protect the country from the devastating impacts of flooding, we will invest £2.4 billion in 2024/25 and 2025/26 to improve flood resilience, by building, maintaining, and repairing flood defences. The list of projects to receive Government f...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22092More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the English Devolution White Paper, published on 16 December 2024, whether unitary local authorities will be required to merge with neighbouring councils to mee
Answer: On 16 December, I wrote to all councils in two-tier areas and to neighbouring small unitaries alongside the White Paper, to set out our plans. I intend to formally invite unitary proposals in January 2025 from all these councils. I will ask for interim pl...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordViral DiseasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22091More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with (a) his international counterparts and (b) the World Health Organisation on human metapneumovirus.
Answer: The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has had no recent communications from the World Health Organisation or other countries in relation to human metapneumovirus (hMPV).UKHSA’s long-term surveillance of hMPV in England, through systems covering general pr...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordViral DiseasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22090More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of human metapneumovirus have been identified in the UK.
Answer: The UK Health Security Agency’s long-term surveillance of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in England, through systems covering general practice surgeries and hospital laboratories, indicates that hMPV levels in winter 2024-25 are in line with what we would e...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGender Based ViolenceHome OfficeTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21684More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria she will use to measure the success of the ambition to halve violence against women and girls.
Answer: We are undertaking a programme of work to bring together suitable data and metrics to measure progress against the ambition to halve VAWG in a decade. We are working closely with The Office for National Statistics and other stakeholders in producing the m...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad Signs and MarkingsDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21683More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating a new sign asking drivers to move to the right at short slip roads.
Answer: The Department has not made an assessment of introducing a sign asking drivers to move to the right at short slip roads. There are currently no plans to introduce this.
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRadio: Rural AreasDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21682More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to support new FM licences for radio stations in (a) Rutland, (b) Mid-Wales and (c) other rural areas.
Answer: The growth and development of digital radio and changes in listener behaviour have resulted in a clear shift away from analogue listening – digital listening now accounts for 74% of all radio listening (RAJAR Q3 2024). Although AM/FM platforms remain impo...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Charging PointsDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21681More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to provide funding for the expansion of electric vehicle chargers in (a) Rutland and South Kesteven and (b) other rural areas.
Answer: Rutland County Council was allocated £569,000 and Lincolnshire County Council, which South Kesteven sits within, was allocated £6,380,592 combined capital and resource funding through the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Fund to expand public ...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: SentencingMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21680More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to make being (a) the leader of and (b) involved in a grooming gang a statutory aggravating factor during sentencing.
Answer: Child sexual abuse and exploitation are the most vile and horrific of crimes - involving rape, violence, coercive control, intimidation, manipulation, and deep long-term harm.That is why this Government is determined to act – strengthening the law, taking...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: ConvictionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21679More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals have been convicted for grooming.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences, including grooming up to and including June 2024 in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here:Crimi...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21678More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will (a) collect and (b) publish the ethnicity of (i) abusers and (ii) victims of grooming gangs.
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon Member to the Home Secretary's statement made on 16 January 2025, in which she announced the appointment of Baroness Louise Casey to lead a rapid three-month audit into these issues. The audit will examine all the currently available da...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21677More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will launch an inquiry into grooming and rape gangs.
Answer: The Government's priority is to take action on delivering against the recommendations of the final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). The Home Secretary announced on 6th January that we will be bringing in mandatory reporti...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSyria: Chemical WeaponsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20901More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure UN Security Council Resolution 2118 on Syria is implemented.
Answer: The UK has been clear. Syria must fulfil its international obligations under UN Security Council Resolution 2118 and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), as we stated at the OPCW Executive Council meeting on 12 December and at the UN Security Council on...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChinese Embassy: Planning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20284More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Prime Minister requested she call-in the application for a new Chinese Embassy in Tower Hamlets after his phone call with the President of China on 23 August 2024.
Answer: I refer the hon Member to the answer given to Question UIN 17009 on 6 December 2024.
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChinese Embassy: Planning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20283More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department have had discussions with representatives of the Chinese government on the application to build a new Chinese Embassy in
Answer: Officials in my Department have met with representatives of the People’s Republic of China. The purpose of this engagement was to explain the operation of the UK planning system. Details of the application for a new Chinese embassy were not discussed.
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChinese Embassy: Planning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20282More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to assess national security considerations when determining whether to grant planning permission for a new Chinese Embassy in Tower Hamlets.
Answer: I refer the hon Member to the answer given to Question HL3240 on 19 December 2024.
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20281More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that care providers, including those in supportive living care settings, are consulted during (a) policy reviews and (b) before policy decisions.
Answer: The Department regularly engages with and consults stakeholders, including providers and people with lived experience of care and support services, to ensure that a wide range of views are taken into account through all stages of the policy life cycle. Th...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordForeign Influence Registration SchemeHome OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20280More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to announce which countries will be included in the enhanced tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme.
Answer: Work is underway to identify which foreign powers will be placed on the enhanced tier, based on robust security and intelligence analysis.We will set out our approach to the use of the enhanced tier, including which foreign powers and foreign power-contro...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEmergency Services: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20279More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to exempt emergency service providers from business rates.
Answer: Certain properties are exempt from business rates. Details on exemptions can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-business-rate-relief/exempt-properties. Any decisions on future tax policy will be announced by the Chancellor at a fiscal event.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFawzi OmarHome OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20278More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the immigration status was of Fawzi Omar when he committed a sexual assault on 8 May 2024.
Answer: My thoughts are with the victims of these appalling crimes and their families, and I applaud the work of the police forces who brought perpetrators for these crimes to justice.The Honourable Member will understand that, even in such appalling cases, the p...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMohamed IidowHome OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20277More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the immigration status was for Mohamed Lidow at the time he committed the manslaughter and rape of Natalie Shotter.
Answer: My thoughts are with the victims of these appalling crimes and their families, and I applaud the work of the police forces who brought perpetrators for these crimes to justice.The Honourable Member will understand that, even in such appalling cases, the p...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSolar Power: Supply ChainsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19975More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many solar companies based in the UK his Department has assessed to have supply chain links to forced labour.
Answer: The UK Government does not hold data about the supply chains of individual companies. The Solar Roadmap, to be published in Spring 2025, will outline the actions required develop supply chains that are resilient, sustainable, and free from forced labour. ...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSolar Power: Supply ChainsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19973More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment process his Department uses to determine if solar companies operating in the UK have supply chain links to forced labour.
Answer: The Government opposes all forms of forced labour and is determined to ensure that all UK business do everything in their power to remove any instances of it from their supply chains. However, the UK Government does not hold data about the supply chains o...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
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