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1714532

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	INEOS: Grangemouth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2024 to Question 19719 on INEOS: Belgium, whether she made an assessment of the potential merits of supporting the cethelyne cracker plant at the existing Ineos site at Grangemouth.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
	uin	24145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2024 answer text <p>UK Export Finance is the UK’s Export Credit Agency, and its role is to provide finance and insurance to support UK exports.</p><p> </p><p>It has not had any involvement with the Grangemouth Petrochemical site.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 24146 question first answered 03/05/2024 08:48:31 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1714533

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	INEOS: Belgium
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2024 to Question 19719 on INEOS: Belgium, whether her Department sought assurances from Ineos on the safeguarding of the petrochemical site at Grangemouth before providing support for the Ineos Project One plant at Antwerp.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
	uin	24146
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2024 answer text <p>UK Export Finance is the UK’s Export Credit Agency, and its role is to provide finance and insurance to support UK exports.</p><p> </p><p>It has not had any involvement with the Grangemouth Petrochemical site.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 24145 question first answered 03/05/2024 08:48:31 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1714641

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Export Credit Guarantees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how export development guarantees are scrutinised.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	24001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>UK Export Finance (UKEF) undertakes appropriate financial and other due diligence on all applications for its support. Further information on the eligibility criteria for the Export Development Guarantee is provided online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/export-development-guarantee#application-process" target="_blank">Export Development Guarantee - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Information on UKEF’s governance and due diligence can also be found in its Annual Report and Accounts.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 02/05/2024 16:01:28 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1714020

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Business: Essex
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what support her Department is providing to businesses in Essex to increase the export of goods and services.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	902632
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>Businesses in Essex and across the UK can access the Department for Business and Trade’s wealth of export support through great.gov.uk. This includes our self-serve digital offer, the Export Support Service, which includes our network of International Trade Advisers, International Markets in overseas regions and the Export Academy.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, British businesses can benefit from access to, and support from, DBT Export Champions, 9 of which are Essex based, like Wilkin &amp; Sons.</p><p> </p><p>UK Export Finance also has a network of export finance managers based all around the country, including one covering Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 02/05/2024 13:22:40 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1713453

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Promotion: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department plans to make a recommendation to the Prime Minister to appoint a new Trade Envoy for the Caribbean.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	23449
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>There are no plans at present to appoint a Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to the Caribbean.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 30/04/2024 11:23:51 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1713457

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	UK Export Finance: Consultants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much UK Export Finance has spent on external consultancies in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	23373
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>UK Export Finance’s (UKEF’s) expenditure on external consultancies over the past 5 financial years is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>£6,072,206</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>£4,556,023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>£948,218</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£1,140,281</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£543,583</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>UKEF discloses this expenditure in its Annual Report and Accounts, which the <br> Rt Honourable Member can find here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-export-finance-annual-reports-and-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-export-finance-annual-reports-and-accounts</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The corresponding expenditure for 2023/24 will be in the Annual Report and Accounts for that year, which will be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 02/05/2024 15:59:17 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1713503

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Harland and Wolff: Export Credit Guarantees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when she expects his Department to conclude negotiations with Harland and Wolff on a loan under the Export Development Guarantee Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	23381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>HM Government does not comment on ongoing commercial discussions.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 29/04/2024 12:45:27 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1713270

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	INEOS: Belgium
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2024 to Question 19719 on INEOS: Belgium, whether the Ineos project will be capable of processing sustainable aviation fuel.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
	uin	23317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>The INEOS Olefins project is a petrochemical plant being built to produce a range of petrochemicals products rather than burnable fuels. Therefore it neither processes nor produces any form of aviation fuel.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 26/04/2024 13:01:44 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1712790

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Export Credit Guarantees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 19 February 2024 to Question 13545, whether legal advice has been sought on providing a 100% guarantee on lending to a company under the Export Development Guarantee.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	22910
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>HM Government does not comment on ongoing commercial discussions.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 25/04/2024 15:33:33 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1712799

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Department for Business and Trade: Ukraine
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which businesses accompanied the Minister for Trade on his recent visit to Ukraine.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	22867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>29 companies attended the trade mission to Kyiv.</p><p> </p><p>For reasons of commercial sensitivity and protecting the security interests of the companies that accompanied the minister on the trade mission, the department will not disclose the businesses that attended.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 30/04/2024 16:59:31 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle