All 12 results for cbi onwurah

Business, Innovation and Skills: Innovation and Research ( 8 Dec 2011)

Chi Onwurah: ...focused on innovation—the engine of growth. We welcome it and will consider it carefully. However, we have seen that this Government’s fine words are not matched by action. The director of the CBI recently described their action on solar panels as the “third smack about the head” for investors in renewables. In China, the US, India, Germany and Finland Governments are taking action...

Public Bill Committee: Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Schedule 5 - Amendments related to Part 3 (10 Jul 2012)

Chi Onwurah: ...the end of its initial phase of investigation and has been carrying out interviews with a wide range of top business people, investors, academics, employees and civil servants. The EEF, IOD and CBI have all expressed their support. It is led by Sir George Cox, a former director-general of the Institute of Directors and a director of the New York Stock Exchange Euronext. Sir George will...

Public Bill Committee: Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Clause 27 - Public interest interventions in markets investigations (10 Jul 2012)

Chi Onwurah: ...market investigation process, we should ensure that the CMA’s sole priority is competition, and let the Secretary of State worry about the public interest. That point was made forcefully by the CBI in our evidence sessions. Katja Hall said: “Our concern is about the risk of blurring the responsibility of the new Competition and Markets Authority. What is the benefit of giving the CMA...

Public Bill Committee: Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Clause 39 - Cartel offence (10 Jul 2012)

Chi Onwurah: ..., Q208.] Mr Pritchard’s point was that the dishonesty offence is subjective and can be difficult to prove, but that something else is needed in its place. Katja Hall, chief policy officer of the CBI, agreed: “On this whole issue around the cartel offence and removing dishonesty, I think we understand the intention behind the proposal. We accept that at the moment it is a high hurdle...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Affordable Housing ( 6 Nov 2012)

Chi Onwurah: ...it comes to 4G. In Newcastle, thousands of families are on the council house waiting list and thousands of construction workers are unemployed. Does he not agree with the director general of the CBI, who said that this plan was exactly what the economy needed?

SMEs (Public Sector Procurement) — [Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] (11 Jun 2013)

Chi Onwurah: .... Whether on procurement or bank lending, Ministers across Government are failing SMEs. Responding to a recent National Audit Office report on improving Government procurement, the head of the CBI said: “Two and a half years after the Government committed to centralising public procurement, individual departments are still too often doing their own thing. We need to see strong leadership...

Bill Presented: Title (29 Nov 2013)

Chi Onwurah: ...the investments. These companies will be making decisions now about 2017 and 2020, and if they see a huge policy uncertainty on the horizon, that will put off investment and put jobs at risk. The CBI reported last week: “No alternative to EU membership offers a better balance of advantages and disadvantages or greater influence for the UK”. I do not say that the EU is perfect; far from...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]: Productivity (17 Jun 2015)

Shabana Mahmood: ...We have had a good debate with some thoughtful speeches. I particularly want to mention the speeches of my hon. Friends the Members for Hartlepool (Mr Wright), for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (Chi Onwurah), for Croydon North (Mr Reed), for Sefton Central (Bill Esterson) and for Bristol West (Thangam Debbonaire). May I also congratulate the hon. Members who made their maiden speeches today?...

Exiting the Eu: Science and Research (19 Dec 2016)

Robin Walker: ...debate in the main Chamber. The UK’s global status as a science and research superpower is fundamental to our wider economic competitiveness. The hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (Chi Onwurah) described it as the engine of prosperity. This Government want the UK to be the go-to place for innovators and investors across the world, and we intend to secure the right outcome for...

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Training: Finance (20 Dec 2016)

Chi Onwurah: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the speech delivered by the Prime Minister on 21 November 2016 at the CBI annual conference, how much of the extra £2 billion funding will be spent on skills training.

The Government’S Productivity Plan (28 Feb 2017)

Chi Onwurah: ...—the widest gap since 1992. That was decades ago, when there was another Tory Government with a small majority. Since 2010, UK productivity has grown on average by just 0.4% a year. The OECD, the CBI, the Office for Budget Responsibility and the Bank of England have all expressed concern that continued low productivity growth is holding back our economy. How can we improve our...

Budget Resolutions - Income Tax (Charge) (31 Oct 2018)

Chi Onwurah: ...British Retail Consortium has said that the Government “must engage in more extensive business rates reform to help all retailers and their employees through this period of transformation.” The CBI responded: “Smaller businesses will be relieved by the support on Business Rates… But larger retailers and manufactures—and the millions they employ across the UK—will continue to...


Create an alert

Advanced search

Find this exact word or phrase

You can also do this from the main search box by putting exact words in quotes: like "cycling" or "hutton report"

By default, we show words related to your search term, like “cycle” and “cycles” in a search for cycling. Putting the word in quotes, like "cycling", will stop this.

Excluding these words

You can also do this from the main search box by putting a minus sign before words you don’t want: like hunting -fox

We also support a bunch of boolean search modifiers, like AND and NEAR, for precise searching.

Date range

to

You can give a start date, an end date, or both to restrict results to a particular date range. A missing end date implies the current date, and a missing start date implies the oldest date we have in the system. Dates can be entered in any format you wish, e.g. 3rd March 2007 or 17/10/1989

Person

Enter a name here to restrict results to contributions only by that person.

Section

Restrict results to a particular parliament or assembly that we cover (e.g. the Scottish Parliament), or a particular type of data within an institution, such as Commons Written Answers.

Column

If you know the actual Hansard column number of the information you are interested in (perhaps you’re looking up a paper reference), you can restrict results to that; you can also use column:123 in the main search box.