Written questions

Dame Chi Onwurah

4,615 written questions tabled, most recent first.

7 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 September 2020 to Question 76698 on Coronavirus: Screening, whom that data sharing contact is; or whether he meant to refer in that Answer to a data sharing contract.

7 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Digital Technology: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2020 to Question 77609 on Digital Technology: Training, where the (a) details of the new entitlement which will ensure adults, aged 19 and over, with no or low digital skil

3 Sep 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Disclosure of Information: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2020 to Question 75283 on Disclosure of Information: USA, when he plans to publish updated guidance on international data transfers following the Schrem

3 Sep 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Coronavirus: Disinformation

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what staffing and resource is provided to the unit in his Department tackling covid-19 misinformation.

3 Sep 2020 · Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office

Coronavirus: Disinformation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress the covid-19 fake news unit has made; and what criteria he is using to evaluate the performance of that unit.

3 Sep 2020 · Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office

Government Chief Digital Information Officer

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons there has been a delay in appointing a Government chief digital and information officer; and what assessment he has made of the effect on service delivery of that delay.

3 Sep 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Termination of Employment: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will introduce an appeals process for people released from employment without their company first applying for the furlough scheme.

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

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the cost to the public purse has been of the advance purchase of covid-19 vaccines.

2 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Clinical Trials: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of (a) the covid-19 outbreak and (b) resultant (i) funding reductions and (ii) other factors on the operation of medical trials; and what estimate he has m

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

Charity Research Support Fund: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the level of funding for the Charity Research Support Fund in 2021.

2 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Digital Services Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons two per cent was considered the appropriate level of taxation for the Digital Services Tax.

2 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Digital Technology: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking with international counterparts to develop a global digital taxation solution through the OECD.

2 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Multinational Companies: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the revenue raised from Diverted Profits Tax.

2 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Digital Services Tax: Companies

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what companies are in scope of the Digital Services Tax; and what other forms of taxation are applicable to such companies.

2 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Digital Services Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2020 to Question 76028, what the evidential basis was for the estimated increase in revenue from the Digital Services Tax from £390 million in 2020-2021 to £510 million in 2024-2025

2 Sep 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Research: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether support for R&D will be made available through the Shared Prosperity Fund.

2 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Universities

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the contribution of universities to the local economy.

2 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 August 2020 to Question 43978, what steps his Department is taking to protect people from lower socio-economic groups from covid-19.

2 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he makes of the accuracy of previous R estimates for the rate of covid-19 transmission when actual transmission rates become measurable.

2 Sep 2020 · Home Office

Asylum: Newcastle upon Tyne

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has published for companies contracted by her Department to provide housing for asylum seekers on the (a) policy and (b) safety of housing asylum seekers in hotels; and ho

1 Sep 2020 · Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, who is responsible for monitoring or overseeing the use of algorithms used in the provision of public services by the Government.