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1567106

registered interest
date	16/01/2023
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	Energy Bills Rebate: Meters
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 steps his Department has taken to ensure that householders on sub-meters receive the £400 Energy Bills Support Scheme payment as soon as possible.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	124073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>As an extension to the Energy Bills Support Scheme, alternative funding is being provided to around 900,000 households without a direct relationship with a domestic electricity supplier. Some residents with sub-meters may be eligible for the Energy Bill Support Scheme Alternative Funding, which will provide equivalent support of £400 for energy bills to households without a domestic electricity supply. This includes those who do not have a domestic electricity meter or a direct relationship with an electricity supplier. Further details will be published later this month.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 19/01/2023 12:06:15 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1506823

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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: Greenhouse Gas 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 assessment he has made of the potential impact of lifting the ban on fracking in England on the Government's target of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	51958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>Net Zero is a consideration in all relevant government decisions. The Government remains committed to net zero by 2050, but to get there we are going to need oil and gas.</p><p> </p><p>Exploring domestic shale gas as a way of maximising domestic production could not only strengthen UK energy security but also reduce the amount of emissions-intensive gas imported from abroad.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 28/09/2022 14:51:45 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart previous answer version 20351 answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1506896

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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	Energy Intensive Industries: 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 potential merits of providing additional financial support to (a) bakeries and (b) other businesses which use a large amount of energy.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	51961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government understands the huge pressure businesses are facing with their energy bills, which is why immediate action has been taken to support them over the winter, protecting jobs and livelihoods. Details of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme for non-domestic customers were announced on 21 September and details can be found at the link below: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fenergy-bill-relief-scheme-help-for-businesses-and-other-non-domestic-customers&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary.PQ%40BEIS.gov.uk%7Cf19db1263ecc433ebef908da9d679748%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637995365483420937%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=oT4o33PbVDfSti9h8lg6Xc7JlTqvaevHl3pRD6OH68w%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/energy-bill-relief-scheme-help-for-businesses-and-other-non-domestic-customers</a>. The Government will provide a discount on wholesale gas and electricity prices for all non-domestic customers (including all UK businesses, the voluntary sector and the public sector) whose current gas and electricity prices have been significantly inflated in light of global energy prices.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 23/09/2022 13:43:24 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1506240

registered interest
date	08/09/2022
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	Diseases: Research
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 estimate he has made of the number of researchers in the UK researching (a) dementia, (b) cancer, (c) stroke and (d) coronary heart disease in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	49778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government does not collect this data.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 23/09/2022 08:44:35 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1488426

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
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	Mathematics: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when the remaining £176 million of the Government's commitment of £300 million of additional funding for mathematical sciences will be released.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	35049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2022 answer text <p>UKRI’s council level allocations were published on 30 May. The total UKRI allocation is £25.1 billion for 2022-25 and will reach its highest ever level in 2024-25 (over £8.8 billion).  This multi-year settlement provides UKRI and its constituent research councils with stability and certainty to deliver world class research and innovation across their portfolio, including in mathematical sciences.</p><p>As part of the Additional Funding Programme for Mathematical Sciences, UKRI have committed £124 million out to 2028-29. UKRI will seek further opportunities to support mathematical research as it moves towards greater collective management of its funding, creating a portfolio of investments.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 20/07/2022 17:01:14 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1462618

registered interest
date	12/05/2022
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	Housing: Insulation
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 his Department is taking to help insulate houses in (a) Manchester, Gorton constituency, (b) Manchester and (c) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	1328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2022 answer text <p>The Government is supporting a number of schemes to insulate homes and introducing a zero-rate of VAT for five years on measures including insulation and low-carbon heating.</p><p> </p><p>The (£786m) Local Authority Delivery, Home Upgrade Grant (£1.1bn) and Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (£1bn), bring the Government’s investment for decarbonising buildings across this parliament to £6.6 billion.</p><p> </p><p>1,586 homes in Manchester, including 77 in Gorton, have signed up under Phases 1 and 2 of the Local Authority Delivery schemes up to February 2022.</p><p> </p><p>The Greater Manchester Combined Authority is delivering a project under Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (Wave 1) to treat 1,286 homes.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 25/05/2022 14:47:08 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1438904

registered interest
date	08/03/2022
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	Energy: Meters
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 households that have a pre-payment (a) gas and (b) electricity meter in (i) Manchester Gorton, (ii) City of Manchester, (iii) Greater Manchester, (iv) the North West and (v) England.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	136646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>As Ofgem notes in its latest Consumer Protection report (<a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/consumer-protection-report-autumn-2021" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/consumer-protection-report-autumn-2021</a>), there were around 4.1 million electricity and 3.3 million gas customers on a pre-payment meters in Great Britain in 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not undertaken an assessment of figures for these specific areas.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 14/03/2022 15:56:25 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1240105

registered interest
date	05/10/2020
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	Horizon IT System
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has suspended (a) archival and (b) destruction of (i) files and (ii) other records on Post Office’s Horizon computer system.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	99105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2020 answer text <p>Any relevant information located by BEIS that may be in scope of the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry recently launched will be retained by the Department until, at least, the conclusion of the Inquiry.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 08/10/2020 16:51:29 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1195143

registered interest
date	12/05/2020
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	Small Business Grants Fund
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 his Department is taking to ensure that wedding venue operators with rateable values above the cap for the Small Business Grant Fund have access to other covid-19 related grant funding.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	46155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <p>The Small Business Grant Fund and the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund are part of Government’s unprecedented package of support for businesses to help with their ongoing business costs in recognition of the disruption caused by Covid-19.</p><p>Businesses that were in receipt of Small Business Rate Relief or Rural Rate Relief as of 11 March 2020 will be eligible for the Small Business Grants Fund. Under the Retail, Leisure and Hospitality Grants Fund, businesses that would have been in receipt of the Expanded Retail Discount Scheme with properties that have a rateable value of under £51,000 are eligible for cash grants of up to £25,000 per property. Businesses with a rateable value of £51,000 or over are not eligible for this scheme.</p><p>Businesses which are not eligible for the grant schemes should be able to benefit from other measures, including:</p><ul><li>An option to defer VAT payments by up to twelve months;</li><li>The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, now extended to cover all businesses including those which would be able to access commercial credit;</li><li>The Bounce Back Loan scheme, which will ensure that small and micro businesses can quickly access loans of up to £50,000 which are 100% guaranteed by the Government;</li><li>The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, to support businesses with their wage bills;</li><li>The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, to provide support to the self-employed.</li></ul><p>Businesses can search for available support via the business support finder tool at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/business-coronavirus-support-finder" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/business-coronavirus-support-finder</a>.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 18/05/2020 16:43:04 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1194595

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
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	Parental Leave: Coronavirus
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 support his Department provides to workers coming to the end of their statutory (a) maternity and (b) paternity entitlement on returning to work during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	45426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <p>Employees who end their statutory maternity or paternity entitlement and return to work during the COVID-19 outbreak have the same rights as before.</p><p> </p><p>All employees on family-related leave (including Maternity Leave, Adoption Leave, Shared Parental Leave, Paternity Leave and Parental Bereavement Leave) have a right to return to the same job if they have been off work for 26 weeks or less and a right to return to the same, or a similar job, if they have been off work for more than 26 weeks. This has not changed.</p><p> </p><p>For those on Maternity Leave, the normal redundancy protections apply. Maternity discrimination in the workplace is unlawful and there are clear regulations in place which every employer must follow.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to protecting jobs and has provided unprecedented support to employers to retain their employees and protect the UK economy through implementing the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Employees returning from family-related leave can be furloughed if they and their employer agree to this.</p><p> </p><p>In terms of what support employees can expect if they are returning to the workplace, the Government is working to ensure that all workers have the confidence they need to go back to work. New ‘COVID-19 secure’ guidelines are available to UK employers to help them ensure workplaces are as safe as possible. The guidelines have been developed with input from a range of stakeholders, including Public Health England (PHE) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 18/05/2020 16:27:46 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan