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1680389

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Department for Business and Trade: Ground Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2023 to Question 4980 on Cabinet Office: Ground Transport, which Ministers have used vehicles provided under the terms of the Cabinet Office contract originally agreed with Ground Transport Ltd on 13 November 2020, reference CCYZ20A06, since that contract was novated to her Department on 16 October 2022.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	8392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The contract and associated details for travel can be found on Contracts Finder; it will be updated in due course to reflect the latest arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 8393 question first answered 16/01/2024 17:58:49 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1680390

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Department for Business and Trade: Ground Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2023 to Question 4980 on Cabinet Office: Ground Transport, what the maximum value was of the agreement to extend until June 2024 the Cabinet Office contract originally agreed with Ground Transport Ltd on 13 November 2020 (reference CCYZ20A06), and novated to her Department on 16 October 202;, and which minister will use the vehicle provided under that contract in the period up to June 2024.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	8393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The contract and associated details for travel can be found on Contracts Finder; it will be updated in due course to reflect the latest arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 8392 question first answered 16/01/2024 17:58:49 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1676994

registered interest
date	11/12/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Freeports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2023 to Question 4105 on Freeports, how many of the 12 freeports were recorded as having (a) a number of jobs created as a result of verified foreign direct investment of (i) 0-50, (ii) 51-100, (iii) 101-150, (iv) 151-200 and (v) more than 200 and (b) an amount of capital expenditure resulting from that investment of (A) £0-£50 million, (B) £51-£100 million, (C) £101-£150 million, (D) £151-£200 million and (E) more than £200 million between December 2021 and November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	6154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>The investments making up the totals published on 24 November 2023 are spread across the 12 Freeports but details of individual investments are commercially sensitive.</p><p>This means that releasing information that indicates the specific characteristics associated with these investments risks identifying the identity of the companies. The limitation prevents the Department for Business and Trade to publish further detail about the investments.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 19/12/2023 10:19:26 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1673525

registered interest
date	28/11/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Freeports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Inward investment in to freeports: December 2021 to November 2023, published on 24 November 2023, if she will detail which freeports the (a) 1,421 jobs and (b) £1,278 million of capital expenditure were attributed to in that publication.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	4105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>The investments making up the totals published on 24 November 2023 are spread across the 12 Freeports but details of individual investments are commercially sensitive. This means that publishing the specific location associated with these investments risks identifying such commercially sensitive information. The limitation prevents the Department for Business and Trade to publish further detail about the investments.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 04/12/2023 17:51:44 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1673526

registered interest
date	28/11/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Freeports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Inward investment in to freeports: December 2021 to November 2023, published on 24 November 2023, what are the equivalent estimates for the (a) number of jobs created and (b) amount of capital expenditure generated as a result of investment by UK resident entities over the period covered by that publication.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	4106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>The publication entitled Inward investment in to freeports: December 2021 to November 2023, published on 24 November 2023 confirms verified foreign investment into Freeports. The Department for Business and Trade can only provide verification for foreign direct investment into the UK, not domestic investment, so we are unable to provide equivalent estimates.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 04/12/2023 17:43:23 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1668341

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Department for Business and Trade: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to Cabinet Office statistics on Permanent and temporary civil servants by sex, age band and department: 2023, published on 31 October 2023, how many permanent civil servants excluding agencies worked for (a) her Department on 31 March 2020 and (b) its predecessor departments in (i) 2011 and (ii) 2016.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2023 answer text <p>On 31 March 2020 the Department for International Trade had a headcount of 2,300 permanent civil servants<strong>,</strong> excluding Agencies.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for International Trade was created in July 2016 following the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union. The earliest published headcount was 920 permanent civil servants in December 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 17/11/2023 14:44:30 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1668343

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Department for Business and Trade: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to Cabinet Office statistics on Permanent and temporary civil servants by sex, age band and department: 2023, published on 31 October 2023, how many permanent civil servants excluding agencies worked for her Department on 31 October 2023.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade is a newly formed Department established in February 2023. The new department absorbed the functions of the former Department for International Trade (DIT) and some of the functions of the former Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).</p><p> </p><p>On 31 October 2023 the Department for Business and Trade comprised 5,411 permanent civil servants<strong>,</strong> excluding Agencies.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business and Trade is a newly formed Department established in February 2023. The new department absorbed the functions of the former Department for International Trade (DIT) and some of the functions of the former Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 17/11/2023 14:50:01 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry