Dame Chi Onwurah

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Transport

Car Sharing: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support his Department is providing to help encourage the use of community car (a) clubs and (b) sharing as a means of tackling carbon emissions.

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Life Sciences

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy of 11 January 2022, Official Report, column 415,

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with which (a) local authorities and (b) devolved administrations his Department has discussed Innovation Deals.

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Newcastle upon Tyne

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2022 to Question 110357 on Bus Services: Travel Information, when real time data from Newcastle was first available on the Bus Open Data Service; and what assessment he has

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the impact of Maintained Nursery Schools funding on their ability to adequately support SEND children.

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the Early Education, NAHT, NEU and UNISON survey on the impact of covid-19 on Maintained Nursery School funding.

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the impact of the formula for calculating Maintained Nursery Schools supplementary funding on discrepancies in that funding between (a) Barnet, Camden and Harrow, (b) Newcastle an

28 Jan 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2022 to Question 98278, on Refugees: Employment, how her Department makes an assessment of the effectiveness of employment support for refugees when data on their

28 Jan 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2022 to Question 98278, on Refugees: Employment, for what reason that data is not available.

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

Research: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January to Question 110349, what proportion of private sector leverage is considered highly successful; and what proportion of Innovate UK programmes

28 Jan 2022 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Procurement

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2022 to Question 105512 on Government Departments: Procurement, whether his Department has responsibility for the social value of Go

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

Research: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much private R&D investment is estimated to be crowded in for each pound of public R&D spend; how that estimate is calculated; and whether that is dependent on (a) geography a

27 Jan 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Research: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of (a) the proportion of private sector investment which is outside of the Golden Triangle of Oxford, Cambridge and London and (b) how that has increas

27 Jan 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Research: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he plans to take to increase the proportion of public and private UK research and development spend outside the Golden Triangle of Oxford, Cambridge and London.

27 Jan 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Innovation: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with local authorities and regional mayors on the devolution of innovation funding or other forms of innovation deals.

25 Jan 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Aviation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to help secure justice for the victims of flight MH17, including John Alder and Liam Sweeney.

25 Jan 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Football: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will (a) discuss with the Premier League and the Football Association the experience of Newcastle United fans at Elland Road on 22 January 2022 when turnstiles stopped working and

24 Jan 2022 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Travel Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what comparative assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) access to and (b) use of open data for real time bus times in (i) London and (ii) the North East; what steps he is taking to incentivise third part

24 Jan 2022 · Treasury

Patents: Corporation Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 34 of the Centre for Business Research’s May 2021 Report on R&D tax credits, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of that report's estimate that abolishing Patent B

24 Jan 2022 · Treasury

Research: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to exhibition 1 on page 12 of the Centre for Business Research’s May 2021 Report on R&D tax credits, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for his policies of the decrease in sel

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

Life Sciences: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to page 11 of the Life Sciences Vision published on 6 July 2021, what plans his Department has to improve access to private finance for UK Life Sciences companies;

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

Life Sciences: Task Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to page 34 of the Life Sciences Vision published on 6 July 2021, (a) what recent progress he has made on establishing the Life Science Scale Up Taskforce; how that

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

Horizon Europe: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has plans to replace the SME Instrument in the EU Horizon programme in the event that the UK and EU fail to ratify the UK’s association to Horizon; how many

24 Jan 2022 · Treasury

Research: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 35 of the Centre for Business Research’s May 2021 Report on R&D tax credits, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies of that report's (a) conclusion that t

24 Jan 2022 · Treasury

Patents: Corporation Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department made of the potential merits of the Patent Box; and what metrics were used when making that assessment.

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

Research: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to help encourage more private, self-funded research and development.

19 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure covid-19 vaccines are available for children, whose parents make a request for such vaccinations.

19 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making covid-19 vaccinations available to primary school children.

19 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Air Conditioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that an adequate number of HEPA filters are available in schools in Newcastle.

19 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help ensure comprehensive covid-19 mitigation practices in schools in Newcastle.