Dame Chi Onwurah

17 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help increase the representation of disabled people in the workforce.

17 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to tackle stigmatisation of welfare claimants.

17 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Second Report of Session 2021–22, Disability employment gap, published on 30 July 2021, if she will accept the conclusions and recommendations of that Committee that (a) her Department

16 Nov 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Ofcom: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of on 8 November 2021 to Question 71330 on Ofcom: Recruitment, how many staff on a FTE basis Ofcom has employed to support its duties under the Telecoms Security B

15 Nov 2021 · Cabinet Office

Amazon Web Services: Contracts

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the total value of Government cloud computing contracts (a) awarded to Amazon Web Services and (b) awarded to that company by direct award for each fin

15 Nov 2021 · Cabinet Office

Amazon Web Services: Contracts

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total value is of Government cloud computing contracts with Amazon Web Services since 2014; and how that compares with the total value of Government cloud comput

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

ICT: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans the Government has to produce a UK national cloud strategy; and how much the Government plans to invest in the UK domestic cloud computing sector.

15 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

GCHQ: Amazon Web Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she plans to enable Parliamentary scrutiny of the cloud computing contract between Amazon Web Services and GCHQ.

15 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

GCHQ: Amazon Web Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union's July 2020 Schrems II judgement and the recently reported cloud computing contract between Amazon Web Services a

15 Nov 2021 · Cabinet Office

Amazon Web Services: Contracts

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Amazon Web Services’ cloud computing contract with GCHQ provides for a minimum of 10 per cent social value in line with public procurement policy; and if he will

15 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Amazon Web Services: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of UK tax that Amazon Web Services will be liable for in relation to its recently reported cloud computing contract with GCHQ.

15 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Amazon Web Services: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has received assurances that Amazon Web Services will pay in full its UK taxes on all income earned with respect to its recently reported cloud computing contract with GCHQ.

15 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

GCHQ: Amazon Web Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the recently reported contract awarded to Amazon Web Services, for what reasons GCHQ did not contract its cloud services with a domestic UK provider.

15 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

GCHQ: Amazon Web Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many cloud computing companies submitted a bid for the contract that GCHQ is recently reported to have awarded to Amazon Web Services; and how many of those bids were submitted by dom

15 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

GCHQ: Amazon Web Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the value of the recently reported cloud computing contract between Amazon Web Services and GCHQ is.

9 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Paramilitary Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of whether arms and equipment provided by the UK to the Saudi and Emirati Governments may have been acquired by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces; and

9 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she has taken to (a) secure the release of Sudan’s prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok and (b) allow him to return to his position; and whether she has taken steps to (

9 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mathematics: Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the amount that the Government has spent on mathematical sciences at higher education institutions in the UK over the last five years; and what compar

9 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mathematics: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the press release of 27 January 2020, if he will publish details of (a) the actual expenditure of the £300 million investment in mathematical sciences as of 9 No

9 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Electricity Generation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions officials in his Department have had with Ofgem on the balance of reactive power in the UK’s electricity grid (a) as of 9 November 2021 and (b) in the future.

9 Nov 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Climate Change: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has he made of the impact on the North East environment & food production of global warming of (a) 1.5 per cent, (b) 1.8 per cent, (c) 2.4 per cent and (d) 4 per cent.

9 Nov 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Regional Planning and Development: North of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made for the implications of his policy of the IPPR's report entitled, Time to act: Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on disabled people in the north of Eng

9 Nov 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Sleeping Rough

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, in the context of the Government’s commitment to end rough sleeping by 2024, what recent progress his Department has made in forming a strategy to meet that commitment.

9 Nov 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Social Rented Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy in the level of building of new social housing; and if he will make new social housing building part of his Department's levelling

8 Nov 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Ofcom: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many FTE staff Ofcom has recruited to support its duties under the Telecommunications (Security) Bill; and how many FTE staff it plans to recruit for those duties in 2022-23 and 2023

8 Nov 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Ofcom: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff Ofcom has recruited on an FTE basis to support its duties under the proposed Online Safety Bill, and how many FTE staff Ofcom plans to recruit for those duties in 2022-23

4 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Horizon IT System: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether postmasters subject to civil proceedings in respect of the Post Office Horizon scandal are entitled to compensation under the Government's Post Office scheme, announced on

2 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Skills Bootcamps

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the success rate of the Skills Bootcamp scheme in increasing employment among participants.

2 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Skills Bootcamps

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to maximise the uptake of the Skills Bootcamp across (a) age groups and (b) regions.

2 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Skills Bootcamps

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many individuals have participated in Skills Bootcamps by (a) skill type and (b) region since the beginning of those schemes.