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date	29/01/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Carbon Capture and Storage: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the £20 billion of funding announced in the Spring Budget 2023 for early deployment of carbon capture, usage and storage was in addition to previous announcements of funding for (a) carbon capture, usage and storage, (b) hydrogen power and (c) direct air capture made since January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	11764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>In March 2023 Government announced up to £20 billion funding for early deployment of CCUS across all sectors. This includes the £1 billion Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) Infrastructure Fund (CIF), supporting the ambition for CCUS in four industrial clusters by 2030 at the latest.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also made wider announcements on funding for green technologies since 2020. For example, in May 2021, the Government announced £166m cash injection for green technology, this included £6m for the Direct Air Capture and Greenhouse Gas Removals Innovation Programme, Phase 1. In July 2022, the Government announced that carbon removal technology would benefit from over £54m of Government Funding. This was for the Direct air Capture and Greenhouse Gas Removals Programme Phase 2.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 06/02/2024 16:09:55 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1467454

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date	01/06/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Animal Feed: Insects
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals enabling the use of insect protein in pelleted chicken and pig feed in the UK, as approved by the EU in 2020.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	11764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>In 2021 the EU amended their Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE) legislation to allow the use of insect protein in pig and poultry feed.</p><p> </p><p>The EU had been working on these changes since the publication of their TSE Roadmap 2 in 2010. The European Food Safety Authority completed multiple risk assessments on behalf of the EU to inform the changes to their feed controls.</p><p> </p><p>Following EU exit, Defra has been working with devolved administrations and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) on a review of our domestic controls of livestock feed. Risk assessments were commissioned from the Animal Plant and Health Agency in summer 2021, to assess the animal health risk of the changes. These risk assessments are being finalised and public health considerations assessed by the FSA.</p><p> </p><p>The conclusions of these risk assessments will inform decisions on whether to revise our existing feed controls.</p><p> </p><p>Defra has also recently commissioned a scientific review on the use of insects as animal feed, including examining the evidence around nutritional, socio-economic and environmental considerations.</p><p> </p><p>An enhanced evidence base will help us to better understand how insect farming could contribute to sustainable poultry and pig feed production.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 11763 question first answered 13/06/2022 15:52:15 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

421194

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Support for Mortgage Interest
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what specific guidance and advice his Department will be issuing to pensioners on the change in the Support for Mortgage Interest scheme from a benefit to an interest-bearing loan.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	11764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>The Department will be ensure that impartial advice is provided to all claimants, including pensioners, on taking out a loan. This will ensure that all claimants are able to make informed decisions about taking a SMI loan.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/10/2015 13:03:54 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith