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Division Vote (Commons)
4 Dec 2024 - Employer National Insurance Contributions - View Vote Context
Chi Onwurah (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 325 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 165 Noes - 334
Division Vote (Commons)
4 Dec 2024 - Farming and Inheritance Tax - View Vote Context
Chi Onwurah (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 329 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 181 Noes - 339
Written Question
Railways: Nationalisation
Wednesday 4th December 2024

Asked by: Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of maintaining regional livery designs as railway franchises are brought back into public ownership.

Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Department has not assessed the potential merits of maintaining regional livery designs as railway franchises are brought back into public ownership.


Written Question
Project Gigabit and Shared Rural Network
Wednesday 4th December 2024

Asked by: Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West)

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the answer of 25 November 2024 to Question 14940, on Project Gigabit and Shared Rural Network, how Ofcom tests areas for compliance with their standard for good coverage.

Answered by Chris Bryant - Minister of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

Ofcom’s approach to testing compliance is available on Ofcom’s website. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/coverage-and-speeds/cellular-coverage/

It involves a combination of desk-based assessment against the mobile network operators (MNO) coverage predictions and drive testing in a sample of locations across the UK.

Ofcom uses scanners installed in vehicles to capture a range of information including mobile signal strength across the UK’s road network. This provides signal strength measurement samples for each MNO across different regions and terrains. This data is then used for comparison at an aggregated level with the coverage predictions the MNOs supply to Ofcom.


Written Question
Turing Scheme: Free School Meals
Wednesday 4th December 2024

Asked by: Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of students with Turing grants who are eligible for free school meals attend an independent school.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The Turing Scheme is the UK Government’s global programme for students to study and work abroad. The Turing Scheme provides additional funding to students from disadvantaged backgrounds to help them to participate in international placements. All students from disadvantaged backgrounds can get funding for travel-related costs. This includes visa application fees, vaccines, medical certificates, passports, and related travel insurance. Students with special educational needs and disabilities can also get funding for their support needs.

Schools identify students from a disadvantaged background using the following criteria:

  • Someone with an annual household income of £25,000 or less.
  • Someone who has been entitled to free school meals (FSM) at any point in the past six years because of being in a low-income household.
  • Someone with experience of being in care or who is a care leaver, including anyone who is or has been in care or from a looked after background at any stage of their life.
  • A refugee or an asylum seeker.
  • Someone who is receiving Universal Credit or income related benefits themselves, or lives with someone who does.

Receiving FSM in reception, year 1 and year 2 in England or primary 1 to 5 in Scotland does not automatically meet the criteria for funding for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

This list is not exhaustive. If a school identifies pupils who do not precisely meet these criteria but share similar characteristics which justify extra support, they may include them in their application.

As the department does not gather data on which criteria students meet to be considered as being from a disadvantaged background, the department is not able to provide a breakdown of the number of participants in the Turing Scheme who are in receipt of FSM.


Written Question
Turing Scheme: Free School Meals
Wednesday 4th December 2024

Asked by: Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of (a) schools and (b) students with Turing grants receive free school meals.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The Turing Scheme is the UK Government’s global programme for students to study and work abroad. The Turing Scheme provides additional funding to students from disadvantaged backgrounds to help them to participate in international placements. All students from disadvantaged backgrounds can get funding for travel-related costs. This includes visa application fees, vaccines, medical certificates, passports, and related travel insurance. Students with special educational needs and disabilities can also get funding for their support needs.

Schools identify students from a disadvantaged background using the following criteria:

  • Someone with an annual household income of £25,000 or less.
  • Someone who has been entitled to free school meals (FSM) at any point in the past six years because of being in a low-income household.
  • Someone with experience of being in care or who is a care leaver, including anyone who is or has been in care or from a looked after background at any stage of their life.
  • A refugee or an asylum seeker.
  • Someone who is receiving Universal Credit or income related benefits themselves, or lives with someone who does.

Receiving FSM in reception, year 1 and year 2 in England or primary 1 to 5 in Scotland does not automatically meet the criteria for funding for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

This list is not exhaustive. If a school identifies pupils who do not precisely meet these criteria but share similar characteristics which justify extra support, they may include them in their application.

As the department does not gather data on which criteria students meet to be considered as being from a disadvantaged background, the department is not able to provide a breakdown of the number of participants in the Turing Scheme who are in receipt of FSM.


Division Vote (Commons)
3 Dec 2024 - National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context
Chi Onwurah (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 324 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 332 Noes - 189
Division Vote (Commons)
3 Dec 2024 - National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context
Chi Onwurah (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 322 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 186 Noes - 330
Division Vote (Commons)
3 Dec 2024 - Elections (Proportional Representation) - View Vote Context
Chi Onwurah (Lab) voted No - against a party majority - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 50 Labour No votes vs 59 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 138 Noes - 136
Division Vote (Commons)
29 Nov 2024 - Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - View Vote Context
Chi Onwurah (Lab) voted No - against a party majority and against the House
One of 147 Labour No votes vs 234 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 330 Noes - 275