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1083530

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date	07/03/2019
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	Business: Ethnic Groups
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 he is taking to ensure the Industrial Strategy supports BAME-owned businesses.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	229655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting all entrepreneurs to start and grow a business and is a key aspect of our ambitious Industrial Strategy. The government supports diversity in business and recognises the valuable contribution of BAME communities to our economy.</p><p> </p><p>British Business Bank programmes are also currently supporting over £5.9bn of finance to over 82,000 SMEs. The Start-Up Loans programme, now part of the British Business Bank, has delivered nearly 61,000 loans totalling over £464m, and was extended in the autumn budget to April 2021 to enable up to an additional 10,000 loans to be made to entrepreneurs. Of these 22% of loans were made to entrepreneurs with a BAME background (4% of existing SMEs have a BAME owner).</p><p>For the constituency of Chipping Barnett, 161 start-up loans have been delivered totalling an amount of £1,136, 870.</p><p> </p><p>As a key part of the Industrial Strategy, Sector Deals are supporting business of all sizes across the economy and ensuring that businesses meet our wider goals to improve diversity and inclusion in our workforce. For example, the Offshore Wind Sector Deal commits the sector to calculating a baseline figure for BAME representation and to set a stretching target for improving this by the end of 2019.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/03/2019 17:57:40 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1083531

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
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	Business: Ethnic Groups
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 he is taking to support BAME-run businesses.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	229656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting all entrepreneurs to start and grow a business and is a key aspect of our ambitious Industrial Strategy. The government supports diversity in business and recognises the valuable contribution of BAME communities to our economy.</p><p> </p><p>British Business Bank programmes are also currently supporting over £5.9bn of finance to over 82,000 SMEs. The Start-Up Loans programme, now part of the British Business Bank, has delivered nearly 61,000 loans totalling over £464m, and was extended in the autumn budget to April 2021 to enable up to an additional 10,000 loans to be made to entrepreneurs. Of these 22% of loans were made to entrepreneurs with a BAME background (4% of existing SMEs have a BAME owner).</p><p> </p><p>On 6<sup>th</sup> March BEIS launched the Young Entrepreneurs Review, independently led by the Prince’s Trust. The Review will close in September 2019 and will seek to better understand young entrepreneurs, the specific barriers and opportunities they face, and what more can be done to support them to start and grow a business, including young entrepreneurs from a BAME background.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst grouped question UIN 229657 229658 question first answered 12/03/2019 17:50:43 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1083532

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
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	New Businesses: Ethnic Groups
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 he is taking to encourage entrepreneurship in BAME communities.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	229657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting all entrepreneurs to start and grow a business and is a key aspect of our ambitious Industrial Strategy. The government supports diversity in business and recognises the valuable contribution of BAME communities to our economy.</p><p> </p><p>British Business Bank programmes are also currently supporting over £5.9bn of finance to over 82,000 SMEs. The Start-Up Loans programme, now part of the British Business Bank, has delivered nearly 61,000 loans totalling over £464m, and was extended in the autumn budget to April 2021 to enable up to an additional 10,000 loans to be made to entrepreneurs. Of these 22% of loans were made to entrepreneurs with a BAME background (4% of existing SMEs have a BAME owner).</p><p> </p><p>On 6<sup>th</sup> March BEIS launched the Young Entrepreneurs Review, independently led by the Prince’s Trust. The Review will close in September 2019 and will seek to better understand young entrepreneurs, the specific barriers and opportunities they face, and what more can be done to support them to start and grow a business, including young entrepreneurs from a BAME background.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst grouped question UIN 229656 229658 question first answered 12/03/2019 17:50:44 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1083533

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
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	New Businesses: Ethnic Groups
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 he is taking to ensure that business start-up support schemes funded by his Department are engaging with BAME communities.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	229658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting all entrepreneurs to start and grow a business and is a key aspect of our ambitious Industrial Strategy. The government supports diversity in business and recognises the valuable contribution of BAME communities to our economy.</p><p> </p><p>British Business Bank programmes are also currently supporting over £5.9bn of finance to over 82,000 SMEs. The Start-Up Loans programme, now part of the British Business Bank, has delivered nearly 61,000 loans totalling over £464m, and was extended in the autumn budget to April 2021 to enable up to an additional 10,000 loans to be made to entrepreneurs. Of these 22% of loans were made to entrepreneurs with a BAME background (4% of existing SMEs have a BAME owner).</p><p> </p><p>On 6<sup>th</sup> March BEIS launched the Young Entrepreneurs Review, independently led by the Prince’s Trust. The Review will close in September 2019 and will seek to better understand young entrepreneurs, the specific barriers and opportunities they face, and what more can be done to support them to start and grow a business, including young entrepreneurs from a BAME background.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst grouped question UIN 229656 229657 question first answered 12/03/2019 17:50:44 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1083537

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
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 Emissions
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 in place to ensure that UK carbon emissions continue to fall year on year.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	229728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>The UK has been a world leader in cutting emissions while creating wealth. Between 1990 and 2017 the UK reduced its greenhouse emissions by 42% while growing our economy by 72%. The Clean Growth Strategy sets out our plan for meeting future carbon budgets and progressing decarbonisation across the whole of the economy. It includes ambitious proposals on housing, business, power, transport, the natural environment and green finance.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/03/2019 11:39:49 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1083538

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
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
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 in place to ensure that the proportion of renewable resources in the UK's energy mix continues to increase year on year.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	229729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government has an excellent record of supporting renewables and around a third of UK electricity generation now comes from renewable projects. We announced up to £557 million of annual support for further Contracts for Difference (CfD) in the Clean Growth Strategy, published in October 2017. The next CfD allocation round for less established technologies, including offshore wind, is planned for May this year, and is expected to support the delivery of around 4GW of new renewable electricity capacity. The Government has announced it intends to hold subsequent CfD auctions every two years from 2021, which are expected to deliver 1-2GW of additional offshore wind each year in the 2020s. We are also investing £177 million to further reduce the cost of renewables, including innovation in offshore wind turbine blade technology and foundations.</p><p> </p><p>The BEIS £505 million Energy Innovation Programme aims to accelerate the commercialisation of innovative clean energy technologies and processes into the 2020s and 2030s.</p><p> </p><p>Full details about BEIS Energy Innovation Programme investments are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/energy-innovation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/energy-innovation</a>.</p><p>We have also consulted on a Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) to follow on from the Feed-in Tariffs (FIT) scheme, which will close from 1 April 2019, and has contributed to driving down the cost of renewable electricity, including small-scale solar PV. The SEG will ensure that small-scale renewable generators do not export their electricity to the grid for free. The SEG consultation closed on the 5 March 2019 and we are currently considering the responses submitted. Government will respond in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation is available at: <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fconsultations%2Fthe-future-for-small-scale-low-carbon-generation&amp;data=02%7C01%7CMax.Dowland%40beis.gov.uk%7C5fb9a6f408044fc2bb4f08d6a86432e1%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636881546686515265&amp;sdata=SoaXha%2B1JmzpN9TBN2%2BLsMWptQXLPkr3mMTaWnW1wpE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-for-small-scale-low-carbon-generation</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/03/2019 12:02:28 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1083540

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
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: International Cooperation
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 discussions his Department has had with international counterparts to promote a global co-ordinated approach on tackling climate change.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	229731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>We work collaboratively with other countries to tackle climate change in a variety of international fora.</p><p> </p><p>We play a leading role in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change process, which brings together almost 200 countries to discuss a global approach to tackling climate change. This process led to 195 countries coming together to secure the historic Paris Agreement in 2015, and a common rulebook for its implementation being agreed last year in Poland. This rulebook will drive genuine climate action globally, while allowing for flexibility and support for those countries that need it.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this process, we have offered to host the next important 2020 summit, COP26, demonstrating our commitment to ambitious international climate action.</p><p> </p><p>Later this year, the UN Secretary General is convening a Climate Summit in New York. The UK is committed to ensuring it is a success and will be working to bring together key international actors from across the public and private sectors, to drive transformative action on building resilience to climate change.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/03/2019 11:40:02 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1083565

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
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
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 recent estimate he has made of the proportion of UK electricity demand which will be supplied by non-nuclear renewable sources in (a) 2020, (b) 2030 and (c) 2040.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	229606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s Energy and Emissions Projections[1] include estimates of total electricity generation by source to 2035. The latest published projections show (non-nuclear) renewable sources accounting for around 40% of total generation in 2020 and over 50% of total generation in 2030. The projections do not extend to 2040, but it is anticipated that the equivalent proportion for 2040 would be over 50%.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/energy-and-emissions-projections" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/energy-and-emissions-projections</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/03/2019 10:33:30 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1083568

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public Consultation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many consultations by his Department (a) are open, (b) are closed awaiting a Government response and (c) have been initiated since 2016.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	229739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) currently has 6 open consultations.</p><p>20 consultations are closed awaiting a Government response.</p><p>Since its inception in July 2016, BEIS has initiated 100 consultations on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 25/03/2019 07:00:33 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1083625

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the guidance entitled Procurement policy note 03/14: promoting tax compliance, how many suppliers were allocated contracts by his Department as a result of complying with (a) one and (b) more than one of the mitigating circumstances after failing the tax compliance questions.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	229777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>The information can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/03/2019 11:42:21 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds