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date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Chambers of Commerce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans his Department has to increase the role of Accredited Chambers of Commerce in supporting UK exporters.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Poulter
uin	4849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) works extensively with accredited Chambers of Commerce. The delivery of UKTI trade services in England is contracted to Chamber or Chamber related organisations in 5 (of 9) regions. In all regions UKTI works closely with Chambers on a wide range of trade delivery activity. In addition, UKTI has a non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding in place with the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) for issuing non-preferential Certificates of Origin. Those arrangements generate millions of pounds of revenue for the accredited Chamber network.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Overseas Business Networks initiative (OBNi) Government has invested more than £20m since 2013 in a partnership with the British Chambers of Commerce to increase Chamber-led delivery of trade support overseas. Chamber delivery partners have delivered more than 20,000 high-quality company interventions in 2014. Government continues to work with the BCC to accredit overseas delivery partners, and the BCC will deliver a series of global conferences under contract this year.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 08/07/2015 13:33:22 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

386511

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Regional Growth Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, (a) how many projects were selected, (b) how much has been committed to and (c) how much was spent in each parliamentary constituency in England through the Regional Growth Fund in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013, (v) 2014 and (vi) 2015 to date.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	5003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>We do not hold the data in the format requested; the projects by constituency, the amount committed and paid can be found in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 08/07/2015 16:55:56 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name PQ-5003-RFG-table.pdf title RGF fund statistics
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

386517

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Trade Promotion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many companies received support under the High Value Opportunities scheme in each month of the 2014-15 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	4988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>In the 2014-15 financial year UK Trade and Investment supported 980 companies through the High Value Programme. Data is not recorded on a month by month basis.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 08/07/2015 16:57:25 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

386518

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure that levels of business rates do not put the future of small businesses at risk.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
uin	4994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has committed to completing a major review of business rates by the end of 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Autumn Statement 2014 announced a £1bn package of measures to reduce the burden of business rates, focussed on small businesses and retailers, including:</p><p>· extending the doubling of the Small Business Rate Relief until April 2016;</p><p>· continuing the 2% cap on the inflation-linked increase in the business rates multiplier until April 2016; and</p><p>· increasing the retail discount for shops, pubs, cafes and restaurants until April 2016</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 08/07/2015 13:32:32 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan