Liam Byrne

6 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Children: Computers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of school children have access to laptops at home in the West Midlands Combined Authority area.

3 Dec 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the value for money of the system for paying housing benefit to providers of exempt accommodation.

2 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Industry: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the establishment of the Clean Growth Grand Challenge, what representations he has received from the Mayor of the West Midlands on establishing the West Midlands

2 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Industry: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his timeframe is for concluding the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge.

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Batteries: Factories

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to section 4.6 of the Spending Review 2020, if he will publish details on how the £500 million to support electric vehicle battery production will be allocated.

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Batteries: Factories

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his Department's preferred locations are for electric vehicle battery production.

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Batteries: Factories

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the proposals by the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Economic Partnership to create an electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility in the West M

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Batteries: Factories

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish the timetable for creating electric vehicle battery production in the West Midlands.

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Batteries: Factories

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to section 4.6 of the Spending Review 2020, when he plans to announce further details of the financial support for electric vehicle battery production in the West M

27 Nov 2020 · Treasury

UK Shared Prosperity Fund: West Midlands

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Box 3.1 in the Spending Review 2020, if he will set out the proportion of the UK shared prosperity fund which will be allocated to the west midlands combined authority area.

27 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Levelling Up Fund: West Midlands

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to section 4.2 of the Spending Review 2020, what proportion of the £4 billion Levelling Up Fund will be spent in the West Midlands Combined Authority area.

27 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Towns Fund

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to section 4.2 of the Spending Review 2020, if he will publish he 167 projects approved by his Department for financing through the Towns Fund.

27 Nov 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Towns Fund: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what projects he (a) has approved and (b) is considering for financing through the Towns Fund in the West Midlands Combined Authority area.

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to approve his Department's component of the funding package for three new railway stations on the Camp Hill line; what financial contributions the project's partners will make; and what the timet

27 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Trusts: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to reorganise NHS trusts in the Black Country.

27 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Job Creation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the average number of jobs created by every £100 of public capital spending.

27 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Capital Investment: West Midlands

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to section 4.1 of the 2020 spending review, what the value is of the accelerated capital spending projects awarded within the West Midlands Combined Authority area.

27 Nov 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimates he made of the costs incurred by English local authorities in responding to the covid-19 outbreak when preparing the 2020 spending review.

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Kickstart Scheme: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobs have been created by the Kickstart programme in the West Midlands Combined Authority area.

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Restart Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to section 2.9 of of the Spending Review 2020, if she publish the value of the average job subsidy in the Restart programme.

27 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Public Sector: Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to section 2.7 of the Spending Review 2020, how many public sector employees will be affected by the pause in pay awards in 2021-22.

27 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Business: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money has been allocated through the (a) Small Business Grant Fund, (b) Retail Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund and (c) Local Authority Discretionary Grant Fund by region.

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Transport

Trams: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he will approve the business case for the East Birmingham tram.

27 Nov 2020 · Treasury

West Midlands Combined Authority: Borrowing

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the borrowing capacity of the West Midlands Combined Authority is and what portion of this capacity has been used.

20 Nov 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Towns Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what awards have been made from the Towns Fund; to which projects those awards have been made; and what the value is of each such grant awarded.

10 Nov 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Culture Recovery Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding has been awarded under the Culture Recovery Fund, by region.

9 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Public Expenditure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Office for Budget Responsibility's Public finances databank, 27 May 2020, what proportion of the five capital budget of £358 billion included in Treasury statements in May 2020 remains unalloca

2 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Kickstart Scheme: Adecco and Federation of Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when legal approval will be granted to the Federation of Small Businesses and Adecco to enable participation in the Kickstart scheme.

2 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Self-employment Income Support Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications to the Self Employment Income Support Scheme from self-employed workers have been refused.

2 Nov 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether statutory protections from changes to interest rates are available to recipients of the Coronavirus Business Loan Interruption Scheme.