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date	19/03/2019
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	Retail Trade: Urban Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to support high street businesses.
tabling member constituency	Lewes
tabling member printed	Maria Caulfield
uin	909881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>High streets are changing, and the Government is committed to helping communities adapt.</p><p> </p><p>In Budget 2018, we set out Our Plan for the High Street, a £1.6bn package to support the sustainable transformation of our high streets.</p><p> </p><p>This includes a £675m Future High Streets Fund, support for local leadership with a High Streets Task Force, and a one third cut to the business rates bills of eligible small retailers for two years from April this year.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 19/03/2019 15:16:06 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield

1091124

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
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	Post Offices: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the effect of recent post office closures on high street footfall.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	909882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognise and value the importance that post offices play in communities across the UK and we remain committed to the Post Office network’s future.</p><p> </p><p>There is no programme of Post Office closures and the network has been as its most stable for decades thanks to Government investment of over £2 billion since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>The Post Office have in fact opened 350 branches through their New Network Location programme since April 2017.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 19/03/2019 15:16:15 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1091125

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
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	Fracking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Whether it is his policy to promote fracking.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	909883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>As we make the transition to low carbon energy, the UK still needs gas.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes shale gas is an important new domestic energy source as it meets of 30% of our energy demand</p><p> </p><p>We have been clear that any hydraulic fracturing has to be consistent with one of toughest regulatory regimes in the world.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 19/03/2019 15:16:22 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1091126

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
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	Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What plans he has to review the operation of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	909885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government has continued to examine and make reforms to the whistleblowing regime, both to the guidance and legislative framework of protections for workers. The most recent reforms came into effect last year.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to listen to stakeholders and will, of course, review the recent reforms once there is sufficient evidence of their impact.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 19/03/2019 15:16:28 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford