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date	20/10/2022
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	Iron and Steel
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 help deliver a (a) modern and (b) green steel sector by 2050.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	67889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>Decarbonisation pathways are a commercial decision for companies. The Government is working closely with steel producers as they decide on the optimum route for their sites.</p><p> </p><p>Support for the sector includes over £780 million in electricity costs relief. The sector can also apply for over £1 billion available in competitive funding to support industry with energy efficiency and decarbonisation, including:</p><ul><li>Access to up to £66 million through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and the £289 million Industrial Energy Transformation Fund.</li><li>Long-term work at the Materials Processing Institute.</li><li>The opportunity to bid into industrial fuel switching innovation programmes.</li><li>The Carbon Capture Usage and Storage Fund and the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund.</li></ul> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 26/10/2022 16:09:18 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price previous answer version 27389 answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1524606

registered interest
date	20/10/2022
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	Iron and Steel: 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, whether he has had recent discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of establishing a fund to help develop the UK steel industry, following the return of money from the EU Research Fund for Coal and Steel.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	67891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer my Hon. Friend. the then Minister of State for Industry gave on 31st March 2022 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-03-17/141980" target="_blank">141980</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Since taking up his role as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, my Rt. Hon. Friend has prioritised engaging with my Rt. Hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, steel companies, local MPs and other interested parties from the steel sector. As a priority, we are now carefully considering the best way we can work together over the coming period to secure the best outcomes for our steel industry.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 26/10/2022 16:08:47 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price previous answer version 27392 answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1522762

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
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	Construction: Training
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 plans he has to improve construction skills.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	64066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2022 answer text <p>BEIS works closely with the Department for Education, the Department for Work and Pensions and representatives of the construction sector, through the Construction Skills Delivery Group. This has agreed a series of actions to increase investment in construction skills, through greater recruitment of apprentices, support for T-Levels and improving routes into the industry. Apprenticeship starts in the 2021-22 academic year reached over 32,000, which exceeds pre-pandemic levels.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/10/2022 16:04:55 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson