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1648982

registered interest
date	29/06/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Cultural Heritage: Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to safeguard the UK's industrial heritage.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	191798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>The UK’s industrial heritage is a vital part of our nation's rich history and cultural life, and His Majesty’s Government has taken a number of steps to safeguard and promote our industrial heritage across the UK, including in the North East of England.</p><p>HM Government is committed to safeguarding our nation’s built heritage. The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 includes protection for iconic assets of industrial and engineering accomplishment, including the Grade I listed High Level Bridge, the Grade II* listed Tyne Bridge, and the Grade II* listed Swing Bridge, which is also a Scheduled Monument.</p><p>The National Lottery Heritage Fund has invested more than £610 million in industrial, maritime and transport heritage projects across the UK since 1994, including £40 million in the North East.</p><p>In 2019, DCMS invested £18.6 million in the National Railway Museum’s ‘Vision 2025’ project through the Government’s Cultural Investment Fund. This involves a major capital transformation of the National Railway Museum in York and Locomotion Museum in Shildon, County Durham, which will help to celebrate the North East's unique relationship with heritage rail.</p><p>HM Government is also investing £95 million across 65 High Street Heritage Action Zones to revitalise high streets and connect people with their local heritage. The Stockton and Darlington Railway Heritage Action Zone is a brilliant example, restoring 26 miles of historic railway, and developing a major industrial heritage attraction, in the run-up to the bicentenary of the first public steam rail journey between Stockton and Darlington in 1825.</p><p>Repairs Grants for Heritage at Risk, managed by Historic England, have restored a number of industrial heritage sites across the North East, including £250,000 towards the restoration of a Grade II* railway goods shed in Darlington, thought to be the oldest surviving one in the UK.</p><p>Beyond the North East, DCMS has invested in the restoration of other industrial heritage assets. In Greater Manchester, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, Historic England is working with developers to revitalise old textile mills, transforming them into new homes, commercial spaces, and cultural hubs. Historic England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund have helped to reopen Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings – the first iron-framed building in the world – as a new workspace and community asset, with its conservation providing work placements, training and hands-on experience in heritage preservation and construction skills.</p><p>DCMS is working more broadly to promote the UK’s industrial heritage. Our sponsored museums and arm’s-length bodies are playing a key role in engaging young people with our industrial cultural heritage, and encouraging them into STEM pathways. This includes the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, inspiring future engineers with its focus on how Britain’s industrial heritage changed the world. This is supported by the work of the four other Science Museum sites and the Natural History Museum.</p><p>Historic England’s Heritage Schools programme supports primary and secondary schools to engage children with their local industrial heritage and to consider possible future career paths.</p><p>DCMS, in partnership with DfE, is developing the Cultural Education Plan, which will aim to support career progression pathways, and tackle disparities in opportunity and outcomes for children and young people within the cultural and creative sectors. This includes improving engagement in our heritage sectors and industrial heritage.</p><p>Industrial heritage is also fundamental for tourism and our local visitor economy, especially in the North East. The Government is currently developing the Destination Development Partnership, which includes working with partners across the North East to improve the region's visitor economy.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 191795 191796 191797 question first answered 04/07/2023 15:38:31 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1648683

registered interest
date	28/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Pornography
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to issue guidance on the application of legislation to child pornography generated by artificial intelligence.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	191568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government recognises the many benefits Artificial Intelligence can provide across a range of sectors and our efforts to ensure public safety; however artificial intelligence also poses significant risks to our efforts to tackle the proliferation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).</p><p>This Government remains firmly committed to tackling all forms of child sexual abuse online and in our communities across the UK and internationally. Our approach is underpinned by the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy which sets out firm commitments to drive action across the whole system.</p><p>The law in the UK is very clear with regards to production of child sexual abuse material. It is an offence to produce, store, share or search for any material that contains or depicts child sexual abuse, regardless of whether the material depicts a ‘real’ child or not. This prohibition also includes pseudo-imagery that may have been computer-generated.</p><p>Furthermore, the Government is currently driving forward the Online Safety Bill which seeks to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online. The Online Safety Bill will, for the first time, place clear legal duties on technology companies to take proactive steps to identify, remove and prevent users encountering illegal content, including child sexual abuse content from platforms/services. AI-generated content is itself capable of amounting to a child sexual abuse offence regardless of whether it depicts a real child or not. Child sexual abuse offences are priority illegal offences in the Bill, and therefore tech companies are subject to proactive duties to identify and remove CSEA content. In addition, Ofcom can require tech companies to use specified technology to remove such content.</p><p>Companies who fail to fulfil their legal duties will be held to account by an independent regulator, Ofcom, who will have strong enforcement powers including fines of up to £18 million or 10 per cent of qualifying annual global turnover (whichever is greater).</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 03/07/2023 16:49:24 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1648078

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	UK Shared Prosperity Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2023 to Question 187652 on UK Shared Prosperity Fund, whether the expenditure on science, research and development and innovation will be captured through routine reporting.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	191314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>Further to the answer given to Question UIN <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fquestions-statements.parliament.uk%2Fwritten-questions%2Fdetail%2F2023-06-21%2F190622&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C0fa5f854dd504fe41ceb08db7bc94ba0%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638239876696110128%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=A6riQk76L%2FDzyEoyuJJT24Z5Y%2FwSu5YQz7I9mE5%2BJew%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">190622</a> on 26th June 2023, a number of interventions and projects could accommodate activity geared towards R&amp;D and Innovation but would not be exclusively for this purpose.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bishop Auckland answering member printed Dehenna Davison question first answered 03/07/2023 13:52:59 answering member 4737 label Biography information for Dehenna Davison
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1647762

registered interest
date	26/06/2023
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	Dementia: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much government funding was allocated to dementia research in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	191082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2023 answer text <p>Government responsibility for delivering dementia research is shared between the Department of Health and Social Care, with research delivered by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, with research delivered via UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), mainly by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The following table shows the amount spent on dementia research by these funders for the last five years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>2017/18</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></tr><tr><td><p>NIHR</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>31.6</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>21.9</p></td><td><p>31.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MRC</p></td><td><p>34.9</p></td><td><p>56.5</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>46.9</p></td><td><p>41.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ESRC</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td><td><p>5.9</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>81.9</p></td><td><p>95.5</p></td><td><p>78.9</p></td><td><p>76.8</p></td><td><p>80.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 29/06/2023 09:38:30 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1647844

registered interest
date	26/06/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Land Registry: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2023 to Question 188909 on Land Registry: Applications, what the average time was for an HM Land Registry Application Enquiry that did not involve a first time registration to be processed in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	191101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2023 answer text <p>HM Land Registry (HMLR) publishes information about its average processing times for each category of application type on GOV.UK <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fhm-land-registry-processing-times&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C237f5e93dc614b40c2a608db7898f740%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638236370593946733%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Yx87TPGwW01f1sP3g2iMJtyp26n5yFHcagUy%2FArRniM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">here</a>. The information is updated monthly and reflects the average experience based on the previous month's activity.</p><p>Applications to register new titles that are created by a transfer or lease of land that is not already registered would be included in the category of applications to register land for the first time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean grouped question UIN 191102 question first answered 29/06/2023 12:13:36 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1647845

registered interest
date	26/06/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Land Registry: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2023 to Question 188909 on Land Registry: Applications, whether the grant of a new title is considered an application to register land for the first time.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	191102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2023 answer text <p>HM Land Registry (HMLR) publishes information about its average processing times for each category of application type on GOV.UK <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fhm-land-registry-processing-times&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C237f5e93dc614b40c2a608db7898f740%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638236370593946733%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Yx87TPGwW01f1sP3g2iMJtyp26n5yFHcagUy%2FArRniM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">here</a>. The information is updated monthly and reflects the average experience based on the previous month's activity.</p><p>Applications to register new titles that are created by a transfer or lease of land that is not already registered would be included in the category of applications to register land for the first time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean grouped question UIN 191101 question first answered 29/06/2023 12:13:36 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1646798

registered interest
date	22/06/2023
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	Mathematics: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the Government plans to invest £300 million in mathematical sciences.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	190871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2023 answer text <p>UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funds Mathematical Sciences from its core budget, typically spending around £25-30 million per annum. They have also committed a further £124 million which will spend out to 2028-29 as part of the Additional Funding Programme for Mathematic Sciences commitment.</p><p> </p><p>Overall, over the last five years UKRI has funded around £60m per annum in mathematical sciences up to FY2020/21. In 2021/22 this figure was around £80 million due to the additional funding for the mathematical sciences programme. Data for more recent years is not yet available for across all of UKRI.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 190872 question first answered 30/06/2023 10:06:38 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1646799

registered interest
date	22/06/2023
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	Mathematics: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what sums (a) the Government and (b) UK Research and Innovation have contributed to mathematical sciences research in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	190872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2023 answer text <p>UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funds Mathematical Sciences from its core budget, typically spending around £25-30 million per annum. They have also committed a further £124 million which will spend out to 2028-29 as part of the Additional Funding Programme for Mathematic Sciences commitment.</p><p> </p><p>Overall, over the last five years UKRI has funded around £60m per annum in mathematical sciences up to FY2020/21. In 2021/22 this figure was around £80 million due to the additional funding for the mathematical sciences programme. Data for more recent years is not yet available for across all of UKRI.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 190871 question first answered 30/06/2023 10:06:38 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1646800

registered interest
date	22/06/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Horticulture: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support research and development in the ornamental horticulture sector.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	190873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of the ornamental horticultural sector, with domestic production of ornamentals being worth £1.5 billion at farm-gate in 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Industry-led research and development is key to enabling the development of real-world solutions to the challenges being faced by farmers and growers and also to exploiting new opportunities open to them. We have recognised strengths in bio-science, cutting-edge technology and research, with world leading institutes and pioneering farmers, and our £270 million Farming Innovation Programme is supporting industry-led research and development in agriculture and horticulture in England. The ornamental sector is in scope of this programme.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 27/06/2023 09:34:31 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1646801

registered interest
date	22/06/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Crops: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support research into crop protection for crops of national and international importance.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	190874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>Defra has invested over £8.2 million between 2018 and 2024 on Genetic Improvement Networks on nationally and internationally important crops including wheat, oilseed rape, pulses and vegetable crops in research identifying genetic traits to improve their productivity, sustainability, resilience and nutritional quality. We are working with breeders to incorporate these traits into elite UK crop varieties. In May the Government announced additional investment in genetic improvement of up to £30 million to unlock the potential of precision breeding technologies.</p><p> </p><p>We have also committed over £104 million to date through the £270 million Farming Innovation Programme for industry-led research and development in agriculture and horticulture in England. This investment is enabling more farmers, growers and agri-food businesses to become involved in agricultural R&amp;D. This will maximise the impact of R&amp;D investment in innovation and improve the take up of novel approaches on farms.</p><p> </p><p>UK Research and Innovation also has a longstanding strategic priority on Sustainable Agriculture and Food (averaging £139 million per year), supporting critical ‘underpinning’ research and capability/skills development in plant science, pest and pathogen biology. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s recently announced Institute Strategic Programme includes ‘Building Robustness in Crops’, ‘Advancing Plant Health’, and ‘Delivering Sustainable Wheat’, which are all seeking to tackle strategic challenges in agriculture over the next five-year period.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 27/06/2023 13:56:29 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah