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1579894

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2023
	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	Universities: International Cooperation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports in The Times on 23 January that more than 40 British universities “have links to Uyghur Genocide, weapons development, espionage, defence research and hacking”; what estimate they have made of the total annual revenue such collaboration generates; and what steps they are taking to deter universities from partnerships with bodies linked to authoritarian states.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL4957
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government is aware of the reports in the Times on 23 January concerning British university collaborations with China. British universities are independent of Government and they have no obligation to report their revenues as they arise from overseas collaborations.</p><p> </p><p>The Government provides direct support to universities through the Research Collaboration Advice Team, a collaboration set up to help academia manage risks in international collaboration, embed good practice and to ensure that they understand the legislative and regulatory measures that apply. These measures are kept under review and will be strengthened where necessary.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 06/02/2023 17:20:13 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1579932

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2023
	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	Employment: Environment Protection
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase the number of jobs in (1) offshore wind, and (2) the wider green economy.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>The policies and proposals brought forward by the 10 Point Plan, Net Zero and Energy Security Strategies will support up to 480,000 green jobs across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Scheme, the Government has made funding available to support investment in major port and manufacturing infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also working closely with industry, the education sector and other key stakeholders through the Green Jobs Delivery Group. The Delivery Group looks at ways of ensuring all sectors of the economy and parts of the country can benefit from the green transition whilst growing green jobs opportunities.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 06/02/2023 17:17:29 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1579933

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2023
	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	Small Businesses: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to provide further support to Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) experiencing a shortage of financial resources to help them survive in the current economic conditions.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>Businesses will have benefitted from the Government’s reversal of the National Insurance rise, saving SMEs approximately £4,200 on average, the cut to fuel duty for 12 months and raising the Employment Allowance to £5,000.</p><p> </p><p>The Energy Bill Relief and Energy Bill Discount Schemes will protect SMEs from high energy costs over the winter. The Autumn Statement announced £13.6 billion of support for businesses over the next five years, reducing the burden of business rates for SMEs.</p><p> </p><p>Support is available to SMEs across the UK through the Recovery Loan Scheme and the Start-Up loan scheme. The latter has provided 100,228 SMEs with Start-Up loans to the value of £941,064,690.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 06/02/2023 17:16:49 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1579934

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2023
	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	Climate Change: Local Government
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that local authorities are (1) resourced, and (2) supported, to tackle climate change.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4997
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>In the Net Zero Strategy, the Government set out its commitments to enable local areas to deliver net zero.</p><p> </p><p>These include continuing the Local Net Zero Hubs Programme to support local areas with their capability and capacity to meet net zero; and funding work to develop business models to increase private sector investment in local net zero.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 06/02/2023 17:20:43 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1579939

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2023
	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: Standards
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that postal delivery providers, such as Amazon, comply with Ofcom’s (1) new guidance on improving their complaints process, and (2) new regulations improving protections for disabled customers.
	tabling member printed	Lord Wills
	uin	HL5002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>The Postal Services Act 2011 designates Ofcom as the independent regulator for the postal sector with the powers to impose and enforce regulatory requirements on postal operators to fulfil its functions in relation to postal services.</p><p> </p><p>Ofcom decided to take targeted and proportionate steps to address consumer issues identified in its review of postal regulation in 2022. Ofcom committed to ongoing monitoring of the new provisions and considering enforcement action, or further regulation to protect consumers, if progress is not made.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 06/02/2023 17:18:13 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	260 label Biography information for Lord Wills

1580455

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2023
	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	Carbon Capture and Storage
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support the development of carbon capture technology.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	uin	HL5014
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>Between 2004 and 2021 the UK Government has invested over £346 million into CCUS Research, Development and Deployment (RD&amp;D). This funding has ensured the UK remains at the forefront of CCUS Research and Innovation. Developing the skills, knowledge, and technology to allow the UK to deploy CCUS domestically and export it expertise around the world. In 2020 the UK Government confirmed Advanced CCUS and Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) innovation would be two of the ten priority areas of the £1 billion BEIS Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP, 2021-2025).</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 07/02/2023 16:45:40 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

1580488

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2023
	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	Heating: Rural Areas
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support rural households in the transition to net zero heating.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL5047
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>We are bringing forward a range of policies to help rural households decarbonise their heating. These include schemes such as the £450 million Boiler Upgrade Scheme, which provides grants of up to £6,000 towards the installation of heat pumps and biomass boilers, and the £1.1bn Home Upgrade Grant, which supports lower income households off the gas grid in England to upgrade their energy efficiency and transition to low carbon heating.</p><p> </p><p>We are also taking further action to help develop the heat pump market, such as the planned market-based mechanism for low carbon heat. This will provide industry with the policy incentive and confidence to invest in ways to make heat pumps a more attractive and simpler choice for UK households.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 07/02/2023 15:30:36 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1580946

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2023
	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	Drugs: Trade
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the report by the Medicines Manufacturing Industry Partnership Fulfilling the potential identified in the Government's Life Sciences Vision, published on 24 January, what assessment they have made of its findings that since 2010, the UK has fallen from 4th to 98th place in overall trade balance in pharmaceuticals.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL5075
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>Life Sciences pharmaceutical manufacturing was responsible for $27.7bn exports in 2021. Official statistics from the Office for Life Sciences show that employment in core biopharmaceutical manufacturing employment declined between 2009 and 2019, but increased by 5% between 2019 and 2021. The Life Sciences Vision sets out an ambition to create a globally competitive environment for Life Science manufacturing investments. To help meet these ambitions, the Government launched the £60m Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund in March 2022 to incentivise globally mobile manufacturing investments in the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 07/02/2023 15:54:01 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1580972

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2023
	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	Renewable Energy: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support (1) community energy, and (2) local energy development; and what funds they make available for such schemes.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL5113
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>Through government funding to local authorities, including the Local Government Finance Settlement, UK-wide growth funding schemes and other grant programmes, the Government is enabling local areas to tackle net zero goals in ways that best suit their needs.</p><p>The Government also funds five Local Net Zero Hubs to support local authorities to develop net zero projects and attract commercial investment. As of January 2023, the Local Net Zero Hubs are working on a pipeline of projects with a projected total capital value of over £4billion.</p><p>Ofgem also supports community energy projects and is now welcoming applications from community interest groups, co-operative societies, and community benefit societies to the Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 08/02/2023 14:08:11 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1580973

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2023
	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	Housing: Solar Power
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of on-site solar generation on reducing energy bills for households.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL5114
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>On-site solar generation enables households to reduce their energy bills with savings being dependent on the output from the device, the demand profile for the property and the tariff if exporting to the grid.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 08/02/2023 13:54:12 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick