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	date	25/01/2018
	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: 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, what assessment he has made of the UK's contribution to the global growth in investment in renewable energy.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	124981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>Our support for clean energy has produced world leading results.</p><p> </p><p>Continuing investment has ensured that we have the largest installed offshore wind capacity in the world.</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s leadership in financing clean growth is already emerging, with more than 60 green bonds listed on the London Stock Exchange, raising over $20 billion across seven currencies.</p><p> </p><p>Globally the UK is among the largest contributors of climate finance, committing to provide at least £5.8 billion from 2016 to 2020, to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change and support cleaner economic growth.</p><p> </p><p>Data recently released by the Office for National Statistics shows continued strong growth for our low carbon businesses - turnover was up 5% in 2016, employee numbers grew more than 3% and exports are up 1.4%. It is yet more proof of the importance of our clean tech sector to the British and global economy.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 01/02/2018 17:18:48 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

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	date	18/02/2022
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Cycling: World Cup
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, in the context of the recent success of UK cyclists at the 2022 UCI Cycli-cross World Championships, whether her Department (a) has provided and (b) plans to provide support to enable a round of the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup to take place in the UK in the near future.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North East
	tabling member printed	Fabian Hamilton
	uin	124981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>The government, through UK Sport, provides funding towards the staging of major sporting events in line with the Gold Framework <em>guidance on UK-level support available when bidding for and staging major sporting events</em>.</p><p>Given that Cyclo-cross is currently not an Olympic or Paralympic discipline, it is unlikely to be eligible for this type of funding (unless taking place as part of an event covering multiple cycling disciplines).</p><p>However, UK Sport does have regular contact with British Cycling about their event-hosting ambitions and is supporting the staging of the combined UCI World Championships in Glasgow in 2023</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 23/02/2022 17:24:19 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	415 label Biography information for Fabian Hamilton