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Katie Lam

Conservative - Weald of Kent

8,422 (16.6%) majority - 2024 General Election

First elected: 4th July 2024

Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons)

(since November 2024)

4 APPG memberships (as of 7 May 2025)
British Sign Language, Classics, Wine of Great Britain, Woods and Trees
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
12th Feb 2025 - 18th Mar 2025
Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill: Programming sub committee
23rd Oct 2024 - 31st Oct 2024
Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill
23rd Oct 2024 - 31st Oct 2024


Division Voting information

During the current Parliament, Katie Lam has voted in 192 divisions, and never against the majority of their Party.
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Debates during the 2024 Parliament

Speeches made during Parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. For ease of browsing we have grouped debates into individual, departmental and legislative categories.

Sparring Partners
Angela Eagle (Labour)
Minister of State (Home Office)
(49 debate interactions)
Tom Hayes (Labour)
(19 debate interactions)
Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op))
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
(15 debate interactions)
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Department Debates
Home Office
(103 debate contributions)
Department for Education
(21 debate contributions)
Ministry of Justice
(7 debate contributions)
HM Treasury
(6 debate contributions)
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Weald of Kent Petitions

e-Petitions are administered by Parliament and allow members of the public to express support for a particular issue.

If an e-petition reaches 10,000 signatures the Government will issue a written response.

If an e-petition reaches 100,000 signatures the petition becomes eligible for a Parliamentary debate (usually Monday 4.30pm in Westminster Hall).

Katie Lam has not participated in any petition debates

Latest EDMs signed by Katie Lam

2nd September 2024
Katie Lam signed this EDM on Tuesday 3rd September 2024

Social Security

Tabled by: Rishi Sunak (Conservative - Richmond and Northallerton)
That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, praying that the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024 (S.I., 2024, No. 869), dated 22 August 2024, a copy of which was laid before this House on 22 August 2024, be annulled.
81 signatures
(Most recent: 10 Sep 2024)
Signatures by party:
Conservative: 74
Independent: 4
Democratic Unionist Party: 2
Scottish National Party: 1
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Commons initiatives

These initiatives were driven by Katie Lam, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.

MPs who are act as Ministers or Shadow Ministers are generally restricted from performing Commons initiatives other than Urgent Questions.


Katie Lam has not been granted any Urgent Questions

Katie Lam has not been granted any Adjournment Debates

Katie Lam has not introduced any legislation before Parliament


Latest 17 Written Questions

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Written Questions can be tabled by MPs and Lords to request specific information information on the work, policy and activities of a Government Department
10 Other Department Questions
24th Apr 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, with reference to Questions 48 and 49 of the Questions to the General Synod on 10 February 2025, what assessment the Church Commissioners have made of the potential implications for their policies of the comments made by the Bishop of Salisbury that external authorities must approve the implementation timeline for Project Spire; and if the Church Commissioners will list those external authorities.

The Church Commissioners have had informal and constructive dialogue with the Charity Commission about how to implement the Church Commissioners’ response to their historic links to African chattel enslavement (known as “Project Spire”).

This informal engagement has now concluded, and subject to authorisation by trustees the Church Commissioners anticipate that they will make appropriate applications to the Charity Commission.

Project Spire’s implementation timeline depends on this external authority to the extent that the Charity Commission will determine how long it takes to come to a decision.

22nd Apr 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, with reference to p.10 of the report entitled Church Commissioners' Research into Historic Links to Transatlantic Chattel Slavery, published on 1 January 2023, for what reason that report was not peer reviewed to an academic standard.

Peer-reviewed publications are usually written for an academic audience. For instance, an academic journal will send a proposed article to anonymous peer reviewers. Likewise, an academic monograph proposal will be sent for peer review. Documents intended for a public audience go through a different process of internal review.

The report was initiated in 2019 via a query raised at the Church Commissioners’ Audit and Risk Committee. It is rooted in the Church Commissioners’ risk management and fiduciary duties as a 320-year-old in-perpetuity endowment fund and responsible investor. Accordingly, the analysis in the Church Commissioners’ report was underpinned out by independent professional accountants who deployed fundamental forensic techniques: detailed transactions analysis, account reconstruction and asset tracing. An overview of the work carried out by the independent accountants can be found here. The Church Commissioners also engaged independent, expert, professional historians as advisors in compiling its report.

22nd Apr 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, how much money has been spent on (a) research funding, (b) salaries and (c) legal advice for Project Spire.

The Annual Reports of the Church Commissioners’ contains information on fees relating to forensic accounting services provided to support a research project into the fund of Queen Anne’s Bounty, one of the Commissioners’ predecessor bodies. Information (2023, p.105; 2022, p.105; 2021, p.90) can be viewed here: https://www.churchofengland.org/about/governance/national-church-institutions/church-commissioners-england/who-we-are/publications

Further information will be included in the Church Commissioners’ Annual Report and Accounts for 2024, which will be published next month.

22nd Apr 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, whether the Church Commissioners have (a) made or (b) have held discussions with the Charity Commission on making an application to authorise an ex-gratia payment under section 105 or 106 of the Charities Act 2011 in relation to Project Spire.

The Church Commissions have not made an application to the Charity Commission to seek authority for a payment under section 105 or 106 of the Charities Act 2011 in relation to Project Spire.

The Church Commissioners have held discussions with the Charity Commission about making an application to authorise an ex-gratia payment under section 106 of the Charities Act 2011 in relation to Project Spire.

22nd Apr 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, whether the Church Commissioners plan to set up a new charity to administer Project Spire, in the context of the Bishop of Salisbury’s comments at the General Synod in February 2025.

Subject to the decision of trustees and the approval of the Charity Commission, the Church Commissioners plan to set up a new charitable fund, which they propose to call the Fund for Healing, Repair and Justice, as part of the delivery of Project Spire.

22nd Apr 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, whether legal advice has been sought to confirm that the proposals for Project Spire are within the statutory powers of the Church Commissioners.

The Church Commissioners routinely take advice as they consider appropriate in the exercise of their functions where there may be legal implications.

22nd Apr 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, which grant-making powers the Church Commissioners plan to use in making grants under Project Spire.

Subject to the approval of trustees, the Church Commissioners intend to make an application to authorise an ex-gratia payment under section 106 of the Charities Act 2011 on the basis of a moral obligation.

22nd Apr 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what statutory powers the Church Commissioners plan to use to facilitate Project Spire.

Subject to the approval of trustees, the Church Commissioners intend to make an application to authorise an ex-gratia payment under section 106 of the Charities Act 2011 on the basis of a moral obligation.

22nd Apr 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, when Project Spire discussions began between the Charity Commission and the Church Commissioners.

The Church Commissioners began discussions with the Charity Commission about Project Spire in February 2023.

28th Apr 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of microplastics on artificial sports fields on the (a) respiratory health and (b) safety of children while playing sports.

Artificial Grass Pitches (AGPs) currently play a crucial role in getting more people active across the UK. They provide durable, safe, year-round playing surfaces which can sustain up to 80 hours of use per week - significantly more than grass pitches, helping more people to access the benefits of physical activity.

The Government is aware of potential impacts which AGPs have related to the spread of rubber crumb - which contains microplastics. While, currently, there is no clear alternative, DCMS continues to work closely with Defra and the wider sector to help identify a viable long-term solution, which can maximise opportunities to get active in the most healthy and sustainable way possible.

In 2017, the European Chemical Agency published findings from a study which found there is no reason to advise people against playing sports on synthetic turf containing recycled rubber granules as infill material. Further European-led research published in the scientific journal Science of the Total Environment in 2020 reported there were no health concerns for AGPs, and in 2024 the US Environmental Protection Agency published a report noting no significant difference in chemical exposure between players on artificial grass and those on natural grass fields.

Stephanie Peacock
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
6th May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 35595 on Agriculture: Subsidies, how many producer organisations have written to him to express concern over the discontinuation of the Fruit and Vegetables Aid Scheme on 31 December 2025.

Since January 2025 there have been 16 pieces of correspondence addressed to Defra ministers by producer organisations, expressing their concern over the discontinuation of the Fruit and Vegetables Aid Scheme on 31 December 2025.

Daniel Zeichner
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
31st Mar 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2025 to Question 24563 on Farms: Domestic Visits, when he next plans to visit a farm in Kent.

Defra ministers regularly visit farms and meet with farmers nearly every week.

Daniel Zeichner
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
6th May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much Overseas Development Assistance funding has contributed to the (a) establishment and (b) ongoing operation of foreign abattoirs since July 2024.

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office deploys Official Development Assistance (ODA) to fund a range of organisations and programmes which address the productivity of farmers and small-medium enterprises in agri-food value chains in developing countries.

Figures for the UK 2024 ODA are due to be published in Autumn 2025 through the Statistics on International Development report. ODA is an international measure and is collected and reported on a calendar year basis.

Stephen Doughty
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
5th Feb 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds (a) demographic and (b) ethnicity data on the investigation of sex crimes.

The Home Office holds information on all notifiable crimes, including sexual offences, recorded by the police in England and Wales and their investigative outcomes. The extent of the data held in each case will depend on what information has been collected by the police as part of their investigation.

Statistics on the outcomes of cases are routinely published by the Ministry of Justice, and contain breakdowns of convicted offenders by age, gender, ethnicity, police force area and type of offence. This can be assessed via their outcomes by offence data tool available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2024

Jess Phillips
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
20th Mar 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made with the Secretary of State for Transport of the potential impact of suspending the Rural Services Delivery Grant on transport services in rural areas.

The Settlement for 2025-26 makes available over £69 billion for local government, which is a 6.8% cash-terms increase in councils’ Core Spending Power on 2024-25. The majority of this funding is un-ringfenced and can be used by local authorities on local priorities, including transport spending.

On average, places with a significant rural population will receive almost a 6% increase in their Core Spending Power next year, and no council will see a reduction in their Core Spending Power.

Jim McMahon
Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
11th Mar 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much agricultural land her Department plans to compulsorily purchase in (a) Kent and (b) Weald of Kent constituency.

My Department has no plans to compulsorily purchase land in Kent or in the Weald of Kent constituency.

Matthew Pennycook
Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)