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1350856

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	New Businesses: Manufacturing Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to support start-ups in the manufacturing sector.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	41272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting UK manufacturing businesses, including start-ups and recognises the vital role they play in the UK economy, by driving innovation, exports, job creation and productivity growth.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to supporting manufacturers to take advantage of innovative technology and we recently announced <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fnews%2F8-million-government-boost-for-manufacturers-across-england-to-go-digital&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cfilder.onek%40beis.gov.uk%7Caa8df0a9fa1b47253ef508d966631201%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637653397946777930%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=JbjtVD2pKuArzY4hKwXd7ZbWr5lCJDL85VcFmQvt5pw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">£8 million in new government funding for the Made Smarter Adoption programme to help Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs</a>) increase productivity, competitiveness and drive up efficiency by adopting industrial digital technology, building on the success of our Made Smarter North West Pilot.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s business support schemes have been put in place to help eligible businesses to get through the pandemic, from all regions and backgrounds. Information on these schemes and other resources is available via the free Business Support Helpline.</p><p> </p><p>The Start Up Loans Company, part of the Government-owned British Business Bank, provides loans and pre- and post-application support to new entrepreneurs, including a year of free business mentoring for successful applicants. Since 2012, over 86,000 Start Up Loans worth over £769 million have been issued to new entrepreneurs. We are also investing £147 million through the Made Smarter Innovation programme to help forward-thinking UK manufacturers create new, green products and processes, slash carbon emissions, drive up productivity and create thousands of highly skilled new jobs across the country.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 09/09/2021 12:39:38 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1350870

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Innovate UK: Grants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish a list of Innovate UK funding competition winners for 2021 by combined authority area.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	40931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>All Innovate UK (IUK) funded projects are listed in the transparency data published on the GOV.UK website. This includes postcode, Region, LEP, and Local Authority information. Details of funded projects can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/innovate-uk-funded-projects" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/innovate-uk-funded-projects</a>.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 09/09/2021 12:37:55 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1350915

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Innovation and Research: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the accessibility of grants to research and development companies that have faced financial losses during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	40830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government is aware of the pressures on business caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and has sought to protect R&amp;D intensive businesses throughout the crisis, so they can continue to develop new innovative products and help power the UK’s recovery.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2020, we announced a £1.25 billion package to help innovative firms through the pandemic. The comprehensive package included £750 million of targeted grant and loan support, delivered by Innovate UK, for small and medium sized businesses focusing on research and development.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 09/09/2021 12:40:54 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1350916

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Research: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of support available for research and development companies that are defined as an undertaking in difficulty due to losses as a result to the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	40831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>In order to be eligible for the Government’s Covid-19 debt schemes, businesses previously had to demonstrate that they were not an ‘undertaking in difficulty’ as of 31 December 2019. These requirements stem from EU state aid law.</p><p>In September 2020 the Government took advantage of increased flexibility in the Temporary Framework, allowing more businesses to gain eligibility for Government support – including the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) and the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS). The new measures allowed for the assessment to be made at the date of application for the schemes.</p><p>A total of 182,196 businesses in the Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities sector, which includes a significant proportion of R&amp;D businesses, have received over £1.72bn worth of support through these schemes. The Recovery Loan Scheme, which launched in April 2021, enables UK businesses to access loans and other kinds of finance up to £10 million per business as they grow and recover from the disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic. The scheme is open to R&amp;D companies that are defined as an ‘undertaking in difficulty’, so long as the business is outside the scope of the Northern Ireland Protocol.</p><p>This unprecedented package of support comes in addition to £14.9 billion of investment that we have committed to research and development in 2021/22, which puts UK Government R&amp;D spending at its highest level in four decades.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 09/09/2021 12:36:15 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1350950

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Companies House
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to reform the powers and role of Companies House.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	41205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>The Corporate Transparency and Register Reform consultation, published in May 2019, outlined plans for the reform of Companies House. These far-reaching reforms include identity verification of company directors and those who control companies; an expansion in the powers of Companies House to query and challenge information submitted to the register; and improving the processes for supressing personal information from the register in instances where it is no longer relevant or presents a potential threat to the safety of individuals. This consultation received 1,320 responses and in September 2020, the Government published its response.</p><p> </p><p>Please see the below links to the 2019 Corporate Transparency and Register Reform consultation and to the Department’s response:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/819994/Corporate_transparency_and_register_reform.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/819994/Corporate_transparency_and_register_reform.pdf</a>;</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/925059/corporate-transparency-register-reform-government-response.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/925059/corporate-transparency-register-reform-government-response.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Following this consultation, the Department published, in December 2020, three further consultations, which set out further details of the Government’s reform proposals. These consultations included ‘Corporate transparency and register reform: implementing the ban on corporate directors’; ‘Corporate transparency and register reform: improving the quality and value of financial information on the UK companies register’; and ‘Corporate transparency and register reform: powers of the registrar’.</p><p> </p><p>Please see the links to these consultations below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/corporate-transparency-and-register-reform-implementing-the-ban-on-corporate-directors" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/corporate-transparency-and-register-reform-implementing-the-ban-on-corporate-directors</a>;</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/corporate-transparency-and-register-reform-powers-of-the-registrar" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/corporate-transparency-and-register-reform-powers-of-the-registrar</a>;</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/corporate-transparency-and-register-reform-improving-the-quality-and-value-of-financial-information-on-the-uk-companies-register" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/corporate-transparency-and-register-reform-improving-the-quality-and-value-of-financial-information-on-the-uk-companies-register</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will respond to these consultations in due course and plans to legislate when Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 09/09/2021 16:55:44 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1350977

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Newport Wafer Fab: Nexperia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support his Department is providing to the National Security Adviser’s review of the projected takeover of Newport Wafer Fab; and what steps his Department his taking to help ensure that there is appropriate Government scrutiny of similar cases in future.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	40879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>The National Security Adviser’s review is ongoing, drawing on expertise from across Government as necessary.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has recently strengthened its powers to scrutinise investments for their implications for national security through the National Security and Investment Act which will come into force in January 2022.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 09/09/2021 16:52:54 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1351044

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Vans: Manufacturing Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of vehicle supply shortages affecting the UK van sector; and what cross-departmental steps he is taking to help rectify those supply shortages.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	41074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government has regularly engaged with multiple stakeholders including the Department for Transport, manufacturers and automotive trade associations to discuss steps to help rectify supply chain shortages.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises the severity of the semiconductor shortage and its impacts on vehicle supply chains. BEIS officials are working with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) who are leading on this issue. DCMS is working closely with companies affected by this shortage to discuss interim support measures and supply solutions, as well as lobbying for a coordinated multilateral response through the G7. DCMS is also engaging bilaterally with key supplier countries like the US and Japan, to lobby for fair UK access to currently constrained supply and address systemic issues in the sector to avoid future repetition of the current shortage.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/09/2021 12:56:58 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1351052

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that there is sufficient supply chain development in the UK to support the delivery of floating wind beyond 2030.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	41181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government’s £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio fund, announced in my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan for a green industrial revolution, is accelerating the commercialisation of low-carbon technologies, systems and business models in power, buildings, and industry. An important element of this is the Floating Offshore Wind Demonstration Programme which aims to support development and demonstration of state of the art technologies and products in the future offshore wind industry.</p><p> </p><p>Our Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Support Scheme has recently supported the development of significant new offshore wind manufacturing capacity in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 10/09/2021 13:23:24 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1351053

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of potential floating wind projects that could be developed by 2040.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	41182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government has set an ambitious target of 1GW of floating offshore wind by 2030, as part of the wider 40GW by 2030 offshore wind target. This will stimulate development in projects and investment in the supply chain. In addition to our existing floating wind projects, Hywind Scotland and Kincardine, there are also a number of floating wind projects already in early development.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 10/09/2021 13:24:34 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1351054

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential economic merits of setting a target for floating wind for 2040.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	41183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government has set an ambitious target of 1GW of floating offshore wind by 2030, as part of the wider 40GW by 2030 offshore wind target. This will stimulate development in projects and investment in the supply chain. In addition to our existing floating wind projects, Hywind Scotland and Kincardine, there are also a number of floating wind projects already in early development.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 06/09/2021 15:45:10 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden