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date	22/06/2020
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public Inquiries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish the (a) statutory and (b) non-statutory public inquiries being undertaken by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	62605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2020 answer text <p>The non-statutory Magnox Inquiry is currently underway, which is an independent inquiry into the award of the Magnox decommissioning contract by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and its subsequent termination.</p><p> </p><p>Once convened, public inquiries are run independently of the Government. The Department supports and cooperates fully with all public inquiries as required.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 30/06/2020 08:43:37 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1216191

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
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	Coronavirus Local Authority Discretionary 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, if he will issue guidance to local authorities to allow (a) businesses whose business rates are included in their rent and (b) regular market traders to apply for the funds through the Discretionary Grant Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Elmet and Rothwell
tabling member printed	Alec Shelbrooke
uin	62393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2020 answer text <p>On 1 May, the Government announced that up to £617 million has been made available to local authorities in England to allow them to provide discretionary grants. The Local Authority Discretionary Grants Fund is aimed at small businesses with ongoing fixed property-related costs that are not liable for business rates or rates reliefs.</p><p> </p><p>We are asking local authorities to prioritise the following types of businesses for grants from within this funding pot:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Small businesses in shared offices or other flexible workspaces. Examples could include units in industrial parks, science parks, and incubators which do not have their own business rates assessment.</li><li>Regular market traders with fixed building costs, such as rent, who do not have their own business rates assessment.</li><li>Bed &amp; breakfasts which pay Council Tax instead of business rates.</li><li>Charity properties in receipt of Charitable Rate Relief, which would otherwise have been eligible for Small Business Rates Relief or Rural Rate Relief.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Local authorities are responsible for defining the precise eligibility for this Fund and may choose to make payments to other businesses based on local economic need, subject to those businesses meeting the specific eligibility criteria.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Guidance to support local authorities to administer the Fund was published on 13 May at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-on-business-support-grant-funding" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-on-business-support-grant-funding</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 30/06/2020 08:05:46 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3997 label Biography information for Sir Alec Shelbrooke

1216434

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public Opinion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department spent on (a) opinion polling and (b) focus groups in each month since January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	62468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2020 answer text <p>The expenditure with our primary market research provider, Kantar UK LTD, between January 2019 and March 2020 was £4 million. The table below shows spend by month. We are unable to breakdown the expenditure into the activities undertaken by the supplier.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Spend</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-19</p></td><td><p>201,138</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-19</p></td><td><p>178,337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-19</p></td><td><p>691,451</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-19</p></td><td><p>901,263</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-19</p></td><td><p>333,556</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-19</p></td><td><p>57,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-19</p></td><td><p>39,476</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-19</p></td><td><p>242,270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-19</p></td><td><p>350,683</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-19</p></td><td><p>54,369</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-19</p></td><td><p>281,817</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-19</p></td><td><p>37,824</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-20</p></td><td><p>47,942</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-20</p></td><td><p>187,725</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-20</p></td><td><p>407,757</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>4,012,608</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 30/06/2020 08:08:41 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins