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1182906

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date	04/03/2020
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	New Businesses: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following The Alison Rose review of female entrepreneurship, published on 8 March 2019, what progress they have made in increasing the number of female entrepreneurs.
tabling member printed	Baroness Mone
uin	HL2229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>In response to the Alison Rose Review, the government has set out an ambition to increase the number of female entrepreneurs by 50% by 2030, equivalent to nearly 600,000 additional female entrepreneurs.</p><p> </p><p>In order to help realise this ambition, over the past year the Government has worked closely with industry to implement the eight recommendations of the Rose Review. The Rose Review Board, which is co-chaired by BEIS and HM Treasury Ministers, has been established to oversee progress, which includes:</p><p> </p><ul><li>HM Treasury have launched the Investing in Women Code, which to date has 22 signatories;</li><li>Working with partners to expand the expert in residence programme to all 38 Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) areas in England.</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 17/03/2020 13:29:30 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4544 label Biography information for Baroness Mone

1182915

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	Energy: Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to meet the energy efficiency targets for housing set out in their Clean Growth Strategy, published in October 2017.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL2238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>The Clean Growth Strategy set out the aspiration that as many homes as possible will be EPC Band C by 2035 where practical, cost-effective and affordable.</p><p> </p><p>The current iteration of the Energy Company Obligation (ECO3) will upgrade around a million homes for low income and vulnerable households by March 2022. ECO3 and its successor will drive £6 billion of investment between 2018 and 2028 to support energy efficiency improvements. Furthermore, the Manifesto committed to an additional £6.3 billion of public investment to upgrade the energy performance of fuel poor homes and social housing.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2018, we introduced for the first time a minimum energy efficiency standard of EPC Band E for private rented sector properties, with all private rented properties required to meet, or exceed, this standard by 1 April 2020. We will be consulting in due course on options to increase this minimum standard to EPC Band C.</p><p> </p><p>Last year, we launched Simple Energy Advice, a new digital and phoneline service to provide homeowners with impartial and tailored advice on how to cut their energy bills and make their homes greener, as well as information on any available financial support.</p><p> </p><p>We also launched two energy efficiency innovation competitions in summer 2019, both aimed at investigating ways to make energy efficiency cheaper and more accessible for householders. The Whole House Retrofit cost reduction trajectory competition made available £9.4 million of funding for projects which demonstrate the potential to reduce costs for Whole House Retrofit. The Green Home Finance Innovation Fund is making nearly £2 million of funding available for a series of projects to develop innovative green mortgage and other lending products, to improve householder access to green finance to support energy efficiency retrofit.</p><p> </p><p>We have also committed to consult later this year on requirements for lenders to support homeowners to improve the energy efficiency of their homes.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 16/03/2020 16:28:49 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1182920

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	Employment: North East
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking, in line with their commitment to level up regional inequality, to address the statistic set out in the report by City and Guilds Group Missing Millions, published in February, that 21 per cent of people in the North East felt positive about job opportunities in their area compared with 45 per cent of people in London.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL2243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2020 answer text <p>This Government is committed to levelling up the country by creating opportunities outside of London. Of the £3.4 billion invested in Growth Deals across the Northern Powerhouse, £505 million has been awarded to the North East and Tees Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) areas. The most recent report released by the North East LEP highlighted that jobs in the area have increased by 74,000 since 2014, which represents strong progress towards their target of 100,000 new jobs by 2024.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 18/03/2020 16:23:42 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1182926

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	Hygiene: Products
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether there are shortages of hygiene gel distributed to retail outlets; and if so, what is the reason and what measures are being taken to resolve those shortages.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL2249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK is well prepared for this type of outbreak; we are taking all necessary precautions to protect the public, including engaging with industry and the business community to discuss their preparedness planning.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that there has been increased demand on a number of products, including hygiene gel. These shortages are caused by increased consumer demand, rather than supply chain disruption. Retailers are working with suppliers to increase stock and reassure consumers there is no need to buy higher quantities than usual.</p><p> </p><p>We will work with local authorities to extend the hours that deliveries can be made to supermarkets and other food retailers to help the industry respond to COVID-19. The new measures mean retailers can increase the frequency of deliveries to their stores and move stock more quickly from warehouses across the country to replenish their shelves.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 18/03/2020 17:41:49 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley