In the negotiations to form a "Grand Coalition" of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) following the 2013 German elections, Schön was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on digital policy, led by Dorothee Bär and Brigitte Zypries. In 2014, she was appointed deputy chairperson of the &lt;a href="CDU/CSU"&gt;CDU/CSU parliamentary group&lt;/a&gt; in charge of digital policy as well as family affairs, senior citizens, women and youth.