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1253523

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date	19/11/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps her Department is taking to support UK steel exports to the EU after 31 December 2020.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	909021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2020 answer text <p>My Department and the Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy worked closely with industry to engage with the European Commission to provide a tariff-free quota allocation for UK steel exports into the EU from 1 January 2021. The European Commission announced the creation of a UK allocation on 30 October. As a result, the UK steel industry will avoid an £80m tariff bill in the first half of next year, according to UK Steel estimates.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 19/11/2020 15:32:58 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1253761

registered interest
date	19/11/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Fossil Fuels: Export Credit Guarantees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2020 to Question 91998 on Fossil Fuels: Export Credit Guarantees, how much funding from the public purse is being requested for each of those seven projects.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	118071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2020 answer text <p>The seven projects referred to in my response to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston’s previous question, UIN: 91998, are still under consideration by UK Export Finance (UKEF), and no decisions have been made. UKEF is considering the extent and form its support might take and it is too early to quantify the value of our support.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 24/11/2020 17:43:48 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1253762

registered interest
date	19/11/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Fossil Fuels: Export Credit Guarantees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2020 to Question 91998 on Fossil Fuels: Export Credit Guarantees, what the type of fossil fuel project is for each request being considered by UKEF.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	118072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>The fact that UK Export Finance (UKEF) is considering a transaction is not necessarily indicative of future support.</p><p> </p><p>The projects currently being considered relate to: petrochemical, chemical derived fertiliser, gas fired power station efficiency upgrades, power related pipeline, floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) activities, water pumps for oil and gas platforms, wastewater treatment, and equipment for oil and gas production, as well as potential support to be provided under UKEF’s Export Development Guarantee product.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 25/11/2020 16:07:18 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart previous answer version 64033 answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1253763

registered interest
date	19/11/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Development Aid: Coal Fired Power Stations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2020 to Question 91998, how much funding the Government has provided to (a) thermal coal mining and (b) coal power plants overseas in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	118073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2020 answer text <p>Support provided by UK Export Finance (UKEF) takes the form of guarantees, loans or insurance fully funded by premiums.</p><p>Until this year UKEF did not seek details of whether the exported goods would be used for thermal or metallurgical coal; the table below therefore represents support related to the sector in general.</p><p>UKEF has provided the following support for (a) coal mining and (b) coal power plants overseas during the last ten years:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Coal mining</p></td><td><p>Coal power plants</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£16.7m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£52.2m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£23m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£59.9m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 24/11/2020 17:52:06 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1253831

registered interest
date	19/11/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to ensure an exemption for UK steel producers from the EU’s current steel safeguarding quotas.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	117958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government’s priority is to ensure that, at the end of the transition period, domestic industry retains appropriate trade remedy protections. The Department for International Trade and the Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy have engaged closely with the European Commission to secure tariff-free quota allocations for UK steel exports into the EU from 1 January 2021.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 26/11/2020 12:51:37 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart previous answer version 64036 answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1253857

registered interest
date	19/11/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Fairs: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the effect on businesses of not being able to attend tradeshows abroad.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	117990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2020 answer text <p>My Rt hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade meets Cabinet colleagues on a regular basis to discuss a range of issues, including the effect of the pandemic on business.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 24/11/2020 17:38:28 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson