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date	22/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Productivity: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to boost regional productivity in the Yorkshire and Humber region.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the Autumn Budget 2017 and the Industrial Strategy White Paper, the Government will drive productivity in every region of the UK by investing in infrastructure, developing skills, and supporting business. To date, the Yorkshire and Humber region has received more than £1.3 billion from the Local Growth Fund. The Autumn Budget announced a number of further measures which will benefit the region: an £840 million Transforming Cities Fund, which cities such as Leeds and Bradford will be able to bid into for funding to invest in productivity improving transport projects; up to £35 million to trial cutting-edge technology across the rail network, including along the Trans-Pennine route between Manchester, Leeds and York; and two new Tech Nation Hubs in Leeds and Sheffield, linking local tech businesses into a UK-wide network of hubs.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/01/2018 12:52:53 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

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date	22/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Industry: Environment Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2018 to Question 122491, what assessment his Department has made of the contribution of European Investment Bank funding to the UK's green industry.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	124222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>As the Chancellor set out in his 2017 Mansion House speech, the EIB has been an important source of finance for infrastructure investment in the UK. The EIB invests across a range of sectors including energy, transport, housing, education, water and sewerage.</p><p> </p><p>For the green industry, the EIBs largest and most frequent loans over the last decade have been in the field of renewable energy generation, more specifically; offshore wind farms and offshore transmission networks <em>(through OFGEMs offshore transmission network tendering process).</em></p><p> </p><p>From 2006-2016 the EIB lent €15.69bn to the UK energy sector. Of this, roughly a quarter was to projects related to offshore wind generation.</p><p> </p><p>The EIB has also lent to other types of environmentally focussed projects such as the rollout of Smart Meters and the Thames Tideway Tunnel.</p><p> </p><p>A complete database of all EIB projects and loan amounts can be found at the link below;</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.eib.org/projects/loan/list/?region=1&amp;country=GB" target="_blank">http://www.eib.org/projects/loan/list/?region=1&amp;country=GB</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/01/2018 12:55:18 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh