Dame Chi Onwurah

7 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Investment: Regional Planning and Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to statement on page 170 of the Levelling Up White Paper that the additional Government investment will seek to leverage twice as much private sector investment ove

7 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Research: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the reasons for the regional disparities in Private Non Profit R&D funding in 2019 in the ONS dataset Gross domestic expenditure on rese

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Air Conditioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2022 to Question 107576 on Schools: Air Conditioning, how many filters has his Department provided per school in (a) Newcastle, (b) the North East and (c) London.

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Carbon Emissions: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2022 to Question 119564 on Carbon Emissions: Research; if he will publish details of the open competition referred to; whether the research progra

2 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Emigration

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2022 to Question 115899 on Visas: Afghanistan, what steps her Department is taking to secure more routes out of Afghanistan.

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Horizon Europe

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will publish a regional breakdown of the successful applications to the Horizon programme.

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Medical Equipment: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Government’s press release entitled £260 million to boost healthcare research and manufacturing, published on 2 March 2022, noting that Ortho Clinicals Diagn

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Global Britain Investment Fund: Life Sciences

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Government’s press release entitled £260 million to boost healthcare research and manufacturing, published on 2 March 2022, stating that the Life Sciences In

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Life Sciences: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the £60 million funding to expand life sciences manufacturing announced on 2 March 2022 will be subject to his Department’s commitment on page 173 of the Levelling Up Whit

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Global Britain Investment Fund: Life Sciences

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress he has made in allocating the £354 million funding from the Global Britain Investment Fund identified for life sciences manufacturing in Autumn Budget 2021; with ref

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

OneWeb: Satellites

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department made an assessment of the potential merits of alternatives to the Russian Soyuz rockets for the launch of OneWeb; and what plans his Department has to make

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

OneWeb: Satellites

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding (a) Russian- or (b) Belarussian-owned entities received in connection with the OneWeb satellite launch; and what proportion of that sum came from public funding u

2 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Coronavirus: Quarantine

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what financial support the Government is providing to extremely clinically vulnerable people who continue to shield and (a) are unable to seek employment and (b) are not in receipt of benefits because of the earning

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Uprating

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made on the impact of not uprating benefits in line with inflation on levels of child poverty in Newcastle upon Tyne Central.

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Uprating

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made on the impact of not uprating benefits in line with inflation on the incomes of households in receipt of universal credit following reductions to that benefit in

1 Mar 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Disinformation: Russia

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister, Official Report, Thursday 24 February 2022, volume 709, what plans she has to address Russian state-sponsored misinformatio

1 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Transport: Freight

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2022 to Question 115901, what estimate is made of the cost of transport when it is not declared on the customs form, in the context of the cost of transport being required as par

28 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Research: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will (a) review all Belarusian and Russian beneficiaries of UK R&D spending and (b) assess how much R&D investment in the UK comes from Russia or Belarus.

28 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Nuclear Fusion

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s budget in 2021-2022 has been allocated to nuclear fusion.

28 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Renewable Energy: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding his Department has allocated to to research on alternative energy resources for (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22.

28 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Horizon Europe

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps are being taken to prevent a loss of scientific skills and expertise in the event that the UK fails to secure association to Horizon.

28 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Horizon Europe

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to support researchers whose funding offers have been revoked due to delays in EU approval of UK participation in Horizon Europe.

28 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with relevant stakeholders on ensuring that local skills improvement plans contribute to delivery of national net zero targets.

28 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

T-levels: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help ensure that all SMEs are able to offer T-Level placements across the UK.

28 Feb 2022 · Cabinet Office

Small Businesses: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of SMEs accessing Public Sector contracts via the digital platform of Bloom Services; and if he will make an assessment of the compatibility of those services

28 Feb 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Facebook: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the article entitled Facebook failing to flag harmful climate misinformation, new research finds, published by the Centre for countering digital hate in February 2022,

28 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Power Failures: Emergency Calls

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to make the 105 power cut phone number the same status as 999 to enable free emergency calls to that number from any mobile phone network.

28 Feb 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Telecommunications: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of switching the telephone network from copper wires to digital phone lines on resilience to power cuts.

28 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Innovation: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the role of innovation accelerators is; and how these differ from existing catapults to support the commercial application of research.

24 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Science: Regional Planning and Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2022 to Question 119560 on Science: Regional Planning and Development, what plans he has to extend the biannual meetings with science ministe