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1546763

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Energy
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 his Department has taken recent steps to help ensure that (a) Whitetail Clean Energy and (b) other energy projects can be deployed at full commercial scale.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	99831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government took a significant step forward in the Cluster Sequencing process by announcing in August a shortlist of projects that represented a range of innovative CCUS technologies to progress to the due diligence stage for Track-1. CCUS-enabled clusters will be the starting point for a new carbon capture industry, which could support up to 50,000 jobs in the UK in 2030.</p><p> </p><p>Officials are speaking to representatives from shortlisted projects, including Whitetail Clean Energy, to ensure they remain on track to support the delivery of 20-30Mt per annum of CO2 capture and storage by 2030, [subject to the results of due diligence and negotiations].</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also accelerating many other key energy projects, as outlined in the British Energy Security Strategy.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 05/12/2022 17:11:59 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1546789

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Indo-Pacific Region
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 there has been a change in his Department's (a) departmental expenditure limit and (b) annually managed expenditure spending in the Indo-Pacific region since 16 March 2021.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	99738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>BEIS does not set spending budgets for specific geographical regions. Where spend is ODA eligible then details are published at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2021</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Specific spending details including departmental and geographic breakdowns are in this published file:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1119764/data-underlying-SID-2021.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1119764/data-underlying-SID-2021.ods</a>.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 13/12/2022 09:57:39 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1546798

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Royal Mail: 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, if he will make it his policy to launch an inquiry into the management of funds by Royal Mail Group Ltd.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	99851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>Royal Mail is a private business and the management of its finances are matters for its Board and shareholders.</p><p> </p><p>Company directors are scrutinised internally and externally by shareholders and the various government authorities that oversee companies within the UK, namely Companies House and HMRC.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 13/12/2022 09:54:29 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

1546799

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Postal Services: Universal Service Obligation
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 made an assessment of the potential implications for his Department's policies of the Royal Mail Group reducing the Univeral Service Obligation to five days with no Saturday deliveries.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	99852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government’s objective continues to be ensuring the provision of a sustainable, accessible, and affordable universal postal service. The Government has no current plans to change the statutory minimum requirements of the universal postal service which are set out in the Postal Services Act 2011.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 13/12/2022 09:54:58 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

1546800

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Royal Mail: Redundancy
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 discussions he had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential impact of Royal Mail's plans to cut 10,000 full-time equivalent roles by August 2023 on the Government's levelling up agenda.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	99853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>Decisions on organisational structure and staffing levels are operational business matters for Royal Mail. The Government is not involved in the operations of Royal Mail, a private business, but notes that the company has invested over £2 billion since privatisation including significant investment in new parcel super-hubs in the North West and the West Midlands.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 13/12/2022 09:55:59 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

1546817

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Energy Bills Rebate: District Heating and Park Homes
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 set out the mechanism for receipt of support through the Energy Bill Relief Scheme for (a) persons whose energy is supplied as part of a heat network and (b) residents of park homes.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	99990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>Heat network suppliers and park home site owners who are supported by the Energy Bill Relief Scheme (EBRS) are required to pass this support on, in a just and reasonable way, to end users.</p><p> </p><p>This is set out in legislation. Full guidance on the mechanism for passing through this support is set out in the <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fpass-through-requirements-for-energy-price-support-provided-to-intermediaries%2Fguidance-on-the-pass-through-requirements-for-energy-price-support-in-great-britain-provided-to-intermediaries&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary.PQ%40BEIS.gov.uk%7C45786599200d47eabb5408dad931c658%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C638061105039324824%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2FqyVnPiPerw%2Bhgt6HPdHg37PlgmYZxQPEhMjH66WuS4%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">scheme guidance</a>.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 08/12/2022 17:03:10 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1546840

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Swimming Pools: Energy
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 the Government is taking to support local swimming pools with the cost of energy.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	99817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>The Energy Bill Relief Scheme will provide a price reduction to ensure that all eligible businesses and other non-domestic customers, including swimming pools, are protected from excessively high energy bills over the winter period.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 08/12/2022 17:02:30 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1546866

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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: Sefton Central
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 had recent discussions with the Minister for Women and Equalities on taking steps to improve accessibility to entrepreneurship and business ownership for people with protected characteristics in Sefton Central constituency.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	99811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is fully committed to supporting businesses and creating the best conditions for enterprise so that everyone, whatever their background, has the means and know-how to start and grow a business.</p><p> </p><p>We are supporting early-stage entrepreneurs from all backgrounds through the Start-Up Loans Company which provides funding and intensive support to new entrepreneurs. Since 2012, 40% of Start Up Loans have gone to women, worth over £341m and 20% of loans worth 183m have gone to Black, Asian, and Ethnic-minority business (as at October 2022). One hundred and sixty SMEs in Sefton Central have received loans to the value of £1,688,512 as of October 2022.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 05/12/2022 17:11:08 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1546868

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: Sefton Central
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much the Government has spent on the Social Housing Decarbonization Fund in Sefton Central constituency as of 24 November 2022.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	99813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>SHDF Wave 1 awarded around £179m of grant funding, delivering from 2022 into 2023, of which £11m was awarded to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority consortium, including housing associations which have homes in Sefton, retrofitting around 1,250 homes.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 05/12/2022 17:11:21 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1546869

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery Scheme: Sefton Central
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes were retrofitted as a result of the Local Authority Delivery Scheme in Sefton Central constituency as of 21 November 2022.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	99814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>As of 21 November 2022, 54 homes were reported in official figures as retrofitted as a result of the Local Authority Delivery Scheme in Sefton Central Constituency.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 05/12/2022 17:11:35 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson