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	registered interest
	date	25/01/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations or feedback he has received from (a) small business community, (b) the science community and (c) the investment community on the changes to R&D tax credit announced in the Autumn Statement 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	132400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>The Chancellor set out at the Autumn Statement that the Government will work with industry ahead of Spring Budget to understand whether and how to provide further support for R&amp;D intensive small and medium enterprises (SMEs), while also considering fiscal sustainability.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to engage with industry in the coming months and any further changes will be set out in detail in the usual way at the Budget.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has launched a consultation on R&amp;D Tax Relief Reform which closes on <ins class="ministerial">1</ins>3<del class="ministerial">0</del><sup>th</sup> March.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 30/01/2023 17:55:15 question first ministerially corrected 03/02/2023 10:15:12 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins previous answer version 51416 answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1666326

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2023
	answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
	answering dept id	216
	answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
	answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
	hansard heading	AI Council and Frontier AI Taskforce
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, for what reason the AI Council was disbanded; whether the AI taskforce includes any members of the AI council; and what the terms of reference are for each of those bodies.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	203678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Now the terms of the AI Council members have come to an end, DSIT will be establishing a wider group of expert advisers to input on a range of priority issues across the department, including artificial intelligence, in order to expand the diversity of input on policy issues.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The AI Council’s terms of reference established members would sit on the council for a fixed-term period of up to three years, and all current members are invited to join this wider group of expertise.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The wider group of expertise will be separate but complementary to the recently established Foundation Model Taskforce which will drive forward critical work on AI safety and research.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Since it was established, the Council has advised Government on landmark policies including the National AI Strategy and the recent AI Regulation White Paper, which committed to reviewing its role and how Government structures and experts can support the UK’s evolving AI priorities. AI Council members have been invited to join the wider group of technology advisors as we establish the Foundation Model Taskforce.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 26/10/2023 11:06:43 question first ministerially corrected 26/10/2023 12:08:37 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully previous answer version 104418 answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1673293

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
	answering dept id	216
	answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
	answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
	hansard heading	Satellite Applications Catapult
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the National Space Strategy published on 27 September 2021, what support she is providing to the Satellite Applications Catapult.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	3814
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">The National Space Strategy, published in 2021, set out how the Satellite Applications Catapult would support commercialisation and translation of space technologies in the UK by providing access to world-leading facilities, skills, and equipment.</ins></p><p>In the Autumn Statement 2022, the Government confirmed funding of £1.6 billion for the <ins class="ministerial">UK's nine Catapults</ins> <del class="ministerial">Satellite Application Catapults</del> for the next five years, from April 2023 to March 2028, which is a 35 per cent increase compared to the previous five <ins class="ministerial">years of funding.</ins> <del class="ministerial">years.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">Catapults support innovation and commercialisation by providing access to world-leading facilities, skills, and equipment across the UK.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">Each of the UK's nine Catapults are funded by Innovate UK to drive innovation and commercialisation at the interface between universities and business.</del></p><p> </p><p>The Satellite Applications Catapult core grant funding figures for 2018-2023 are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Core funding by Catapult (FY18/19 – FY22/23)</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>2022/23</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total £m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>£m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Satellite Applications</p></td><td><p>11.00</p></td><td><p>12.00</p></td><td><p>11.90</p></td><td><p>15.20</p></td><td><p>18.40</p></td><td><p>68.50</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 05/12/2023 15:13:58 question first ministerially corrected 11/12/2023 15:48:40 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith previous answer version 5369 answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1277525

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2021
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Data Protection: EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the viability of obtaining a data adequacy decision from the European Commission before the end of the specified period covering the interim provision for transmission of personal data to the UK agreed under the terms of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	138961
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2021 answer text <p>The EU’s adequacy assessments, underway since March 2020, ascertain whether UK data protection standards are ‘essentially equivalent’ to the EU’s. Given we have an existing data protection framework that is equivalent to the EU’s, we see no reason why the UK should not be awarded adequacy and we expect the process to be concluded promptly.</p><p>The EU left insufficient time to adopt data adequacy decisions before the end of the transition period. We have therefore agreed with the EU a time-limited ‘bridging mechanism’ which will allow personal data to continue to flow as it did previously whilst EU adequacy decisions for the UK are adopted. In practice, we do not expect the bridging mechanism to be in place for more than 4 months, which is when the bridge is envisioned to expire, but there is scope to extend it to 6 months if required. As stated above, given the UK has an existing data protection framework that is equivalent to the EU’s, we see no reason why the UK should not be awarded adequacy in this timeframe.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 25/01/2021 16:32:03 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1277526

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2021
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Data Protection: EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what involvement the Information Commissioner’s Office will have in the EU's General Data Protection Regulations’ One Stop Shop mechanism during the interim provision for transmission of personal data agreed under the terms of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement; and if he will publish guidance on that matter for UK (a) citizens and (b) businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	138962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2021 answer text <p>At the end of the transition period EU data protection legislation generally ceased to apply in the UK and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is no longer part of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) One Stop Shop (OSS) mechanism. The ICO will continue to cooperate and collaborate with European supervisory authorities regarding any breaches of GDPR that affect individuals in the UK and other EU and EEA states.</p><p>It is in our mutual interests to establish a shared approach for regulatory cooperation on data protection issues with the EU. Having secured a commitment to regulatory cooperation on data protection in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), we are working to further develop and implement these arrangements.</p><p>Guidance is available on the ICO website.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 25/01/2021 16:31:03 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1277657

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Vaccination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether covid-19 vaccine candidates within a particular age decade will be offered that vaccine in order of their year group, date of birth, alphabetically or otherwise; and whether the scenario is possible that people resident in the same local area who are aged 71 could receive their vaccinations in advance of people living in that same local area who are aged 79.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	138963
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2021 answer text <p>Nationally, individuals eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine within a particular age-based priority group are offered a vaccine in order of their year group in descending order.</p><p>Operationally, if patients in the eligible cohort wish to utilise a vaccination centre, they can choose to do so by booking online or via 119. It is therefore possible that if an individual will wait longer to book their vaccination than others it is possible they may receive a vaccine after residents in the same local area who are younger.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 26/03/2021 15:15:44 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 76243 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1277753

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2021
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Tech Nation: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much Government funding has been allocated to Tech Nation in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	138964
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2021 answer text <p>The total DCMS grant allocation for the last five financial years was:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Total Grant</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£4,236,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£4,335,333</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£5,709,605</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£6,963,725</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>£7,553,429</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In addition MOJ have allocated a £2m grant to Tech Nation from October 2019 to March 2022.</p><p>Tech Nation delivered a total of £158 million of Gross Value Added (GVA) in financial years 2018/19 and 2019/20 combined and expects to deliver over £200 million (approx. £248 million) by the end of the 2020/21 financial year. This represents a return on investment of over 10x.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/01/2021 13:26:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1277754

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2021
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Tech Nation: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what progress Tech Nation has made in improving diversity within (a) within the tech sector and (b) its own organisation.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	138965
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2021 answer text <p>Tech Nation is committed to improving diversity and inclusion within the tech sector. Within their growth programmes, the percentage of non-London companies they support has risen from 32% to 68% since 2018 and they have been collecting ethnicity data from applicants since 2020.</p><p>They have also taken a proactive stance on improving representation in the sector through a number of initiatives such as the successful ‘female founder hours’, improving inclusivity of online resources and developing a diverse speaker database.</p><p>Their annual Tech Nation Report has included detailed diversity statistics on the UK tech sector since the organisation was established in 2018 and they released their Diversity &amp; Inclusion Report in 2019 which delved deeper into this topic.</p><p>For the past two years, they have collaborated with the TechTalent Charter on the data collection which supports their work driving inclusion and diversity in tech recruitment. They have partnered with Extend Ventures in a research capacity for their in-depth report, Diversity Beyond Gender. They have also acted as a delivery partner with OneTech - an organisation dedicated to challenging inequity in the digital sector.</p><p>Tech Nation are committed to fostering a culture of inclusivity within their organisation and to implementing diverse hiring practices, including using job boards such as Black Young Professionals Network and Disabilities Jobsite UK. They are also currently collecting thorough diversity data internally. This uses a newly-developed framework which they then plan to extend to cohort companies and the wider industry, via an external toolkit.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/01/2021 15:20:35 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1277760

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2021
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Databases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many information gateways there are in operation in her Department; and how those gateways are managed and monitored.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	138966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2021 answer text <p>The Attorney General’s Office (‘AGO’) takes the security of its data very seriously. All electronic gateways are managed and monitored through Government Legal Department (GLD) and Crown Prosecution Service HR, Finance, IT and the Unduly Lenient Sentence (‘ULS’) casework shared service provision. Where issues are identified, appropriate actions are taken. Revealing details of AGO monitoring capabilities in public would likely prejudice the capability, effectiveness and ability to strongly preserve those systems. In order to safeguard processing systems, we are unable to provide the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 21/01/2021 08:25:19 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1277761

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2021
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Databases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many information gateways there are in operation in his Department; and how those gateways are managed and monitored.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	138967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2021 answer text <p>DCMS is able to share information with third parties including government departments, public bodies, agencies, devolved nations or local authorities using statutory information gateways. DCMS does not hold a central list of all information sharing gateways available to it.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Each information gateway will have its own management and governance requirements depending on the type of information being shared, and will have to comply with the Data Protection Legislation. In addition, any data sharing will be managed in accordance with the department's data and information policies and standards and our compliance and commitment to protecting citizens' data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 22/01/2021 16:54:00 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah