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1378800

registered interest
date	16/11/2021
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 Businesses: Harlow
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he will take to support small businesses in Harlow.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	904259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2021 answer text <p>Businesses in Harlow will continue to benefit from a range of government programmes, including start up loans and support delivered through the Essex Growth Hub. Additionally, the £23.7m Harlow Town Deal will encourage new business investment into the town.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 16/11/2021 13:35:33 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1365411

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
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	Public Houses: Harlow
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 he is taking to support pubs in Harlow.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	68212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>The Department regularly meets with representatives from across the hospitality sector to discuss how it can recover and build back from the pandemic. We have provided an unprecedented support package of £352 billion, including grants, loans, business rates relief, VAT cuts and the job retention scheme, which hospitality businesses have access to. We have published a new Hospitality Strategy: Reopening, Recovery, Resilience to ensure England’s pubs, bars, restaurants and other hospitality venues can thrive long-term.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. Hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer set out further steps to help the economy recover in the Autumn Budget. These included extending the Recovery Loan Scheme until June 2022, providing over £1 billion to ensure businesses can continue to access loans and other finance, and a 50% business rates discount for hospitality businesses for the year 2022-23. Pubs will directly benefit from draught beer and cider cuts by 5%, as well as simplifying alcohol duty and freezing duty rates on beer, cider, wine and spirits.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 08/11/2021 15:52:40 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1304981

registered interest
date	23/03/2021
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	Additional Restrictions Grant
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 he is taking to ensure that (a) Harlow Council and (b) other local authorities allocate funding from the Additional Restriction Grant to local businesses (i) quickly and (ii) in line with the needs of those businesses.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	174087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2021 answer text <p>Throughout the pandemic, BEIS officials have worked closely with Local Authorities to ensure that grants are delivered as quickly as possible, while safeguarding public funds. As the range of grants available has increased, officials have continued regular briefings with all 314 Local Authorities. Ministers have also held regular conversations with leaders and chief executives.</p><p> </p><p>We have published data that shows as of 17 January, £143 million has been paid out by Local Authorities to businesses in England through the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) scheme, and that figure increases every day. My Rt. Hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced a £425 million top-up to the ARG, to be allocated to Local Authorities which have spent their existing allocations by 30 June 2021.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 13/04/2021 08:47:12 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1300882

registered interest
date	09/03/2021
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	Additional Restrictions Grant: Harlow
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 funding has been allocated to Harlow Council to provide Additional Restriction Grants to local businesses.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	165498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2021 answer text <p>The Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) is a discretionary scheme aimed at supporting businesses, including those that have not been mandated to close but have had their trade adversely affected by the nationalised restrictions. At the Budget on 3rd March, my Rt. Hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an additional £425 million will be made available via the ARG, meaning that more than £2 billion has been made available to Local Authorities since November 2020.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>As at 18 December, 2020, Harlow Council had been allocated £1,741,340 in ARG funding. All data on Government allocations and Local Authority payments of the ARG is available at: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fcoronavirus-grant-funding-local-authority-payments-to-small-and-medium-businesses&amp;data=04%7C01%7CAmanda.Thomas%40beis.gov.uk%7Ca88eb77e374d426e981508d8e3d0d87d%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637509833413244741%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=sk15Kc2995xcLr95vyyXzW%2B0dszcRw%2FJCayewktgj9U%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-grant-funding-local-authority-payments-to-small-and-medium-businesses</a><em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 12/03/2021 12:28:40 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1289980

registered interest
date	25/02/2021
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	Consumer Goods: Electrical Safety
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 electrical goods offered for sale by third party sellers on online marketplaces are safe for use in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	158909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that only safe electrical goods can be sold in the UK. All distributors have a duty to act with due care to ensure products they are selling are safe, this includes online retailers selling goods via marketplaces.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) is engaging proactively with major online marketplaces to ensure that they are playing their part in protecting UK consumers from unsafe products. The OPSS has recently taken action to ensure that a number of non-compliant products being sold by overseas third-party sellers have been removed from sale, including electrical appliances.</p><p> </p><p>The OPSS is also developing a new voluntary commitment for online marketplaces to agree actions they will take to reduce the risks from unsafe products being sold online. This will enable online marketplaces to demonstrate their commitment to the safety of their consumers in the UK by publicly promising to work with UK regulators.</p><p> </p><p>In order to ensure that the UK’s Product Safety framework is flexible and fit for the future, the OPSS is conducting a review. This will ensure we have a framework that delivers safety for consumers while supporting businesses to innovate and grow and will consider the impact on product safety (including electrical goods) of new business models such as third-party sales through online marketplaces.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 02/03/2021 17:03:20 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1285134

registered interest
date	09/02/2021
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	Additional Restrictions Grant: Harlow
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 funding under the Additional Restrictions Grant has been allocated to Harlow Council.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	151673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2021 answer text <p>The Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) was announced in November 2020 to support businesses in England that are not mandated to close but are severely affected by Covid-19 restrictions. An initial £1.1 billion was allocated to Local Authorities to deliver to businesses under this scheme, and a further £500 million in top-up ARG funding was announced in response to the national restrictions that began on 5 January.</p><p> </p><p>This funding is shared between all Local Authorities and they have the discretion to use the ARG scheme to help businesses in the way they see fit. We are working closely with Local Authorities to ensure that support is delivered to businesses that are in scope as quickly as possible. We are not able to share a breakdown of the funding allocated and distributed by Harlow Council at this stage. We will publish information on the scheme as a whole in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 17/02/2021 15:35:14 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1229175

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
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	Personal Care Services: 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 steps his Department is taking to support the beauty industry during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	81814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has worked closely with representatives from the hair and beauty industry to ensure that they could reopen safely as soon as it was possible to do so and based on the evolving science. We are pleased that the industry has now reopened.</p><p> </p><p>While the industry was forced to close, the Government put in place an unprecedented package of financial support which was available to those working in the beauty industry.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 08/09/2020 10:51:39 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1218657

registered interest
date	29/06/2020
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	Personal Care Services: 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 plans the Government has for the reopening of (a) beauty and (b) tanning salons as covid-19 restrictions are eased.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	66021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2020 answer text <p>The Government has published safer working guidance on 23 June for close contact services, including beauty and tanning salons. Following my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister’s announcement, hairdressers and barbers in England will be able to reopen from 4 July, to offer hairdressing services, once they are following the COVID-secure guidelines. Other close contact services, like beauty and tanning salons, remain closed until further notice.</p><p> </p><p>We are taking a phased, cautious approach to reopening our economy, working with businesses, trade associations and medical experts on the safest way to reopen close contact services like beauty and tanning salons where there is often greater risk of transmission due to prolonged periods of face-to-face contact and close proximity between staff and customers. We intend to allow close contact services to re-open as soon as it is safe to do so.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 02/07/2020 09:09:59 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1216969

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
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	Sunbeds: 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 plans he has to reopen tanning salons as covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	63313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>We have been taking a phased, cautious approach to reopening our economy, so that we do not risk a second peak of the virus. On 23 June, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced details of businesses which would be allowed to reopen on 4 July, provided they are COVID-secure.</p><p> </p><p>For those close contact businesses not opening on 4 July, such as tanning salons, we will be working closely to support those sectors and will set out further information in due course.</p><p> </p><p>On 23 June, we published COVID-19 secure guidance for businesses in close contact services which will help businesses such as tanning salons prepare for reopening.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 29/06/2020 10:35:08 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1204399

registered interest
date	16/06/2020
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	Personal Care Services: 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, when his Department will publish guidance on the safe reopening and operation of tanning and beauty salons that operate from home.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	59740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2020 answer text <p>On 13 May, five ministerial-led taskforces were set up to develop plans for how closed sectors could reopen safely, including Close Contact Services such as tanning and beauty salons.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this work, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is engaging constructively with the Close Contact Services industry to develop guidance for them to reopen safely, given the higher risk of transmission in these environments where long periods of person to person contact is required. This work is progressing well.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 22/06/2020 15:26:26 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon