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1647695

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date	26/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Business: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Draft Bill on rural businesses.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	191167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>The Terrorism (Protection of premises) draft Bill is currently undergoing pre-legislative scrutiny by the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC). As part of this process, the Home Office have published a full Impact Assessment, which can be found on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/terrorism-protection-of-premises-draft-bill-overarching-documents" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p><p>A fundamental consideration when developing this draft Bill is proportionality, and it is vital that we balance this against the threat we face today.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 04/07/2023 16:33:29 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1466518

registered interest
date	26/05/2022
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	Business: Rural Areas
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 his Department has to help increase the survival rate of micro-businesses in rural and isolated communities.
tabling member constituency	Isle of Wight
tabling member printed	Bob Seely
uin	10011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government is providing a range of support to help small and medium-sized businesses across the UK with rising costs, including those in rural communities. The Government has cut fuel duty for 12 months, raised the Employment Allowance to £5,000, and is zero-rating VAT on energy-saving materials. This builds on existing support, including business rates relief worth £7 billion over five years.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, Help to Grow programmes will enable eligible SMEs to mitigate the effects of rising costs by providing financial discounts on approved digital technologies up to a value of £5000 and improving SME leadership and management skills though subsidised courses.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 09/06/2022 08:34:57 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4681 label Biography information for Bob Seely

456544

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Business: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the farming industry of the potential impact on rural businesses of the proposed changes to the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	29296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>The changes referred to do not amend the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010. The changes made are to the ‘Environmental Guidance On Waste Incineration’, which now clarifies that small waste oil burners used to burn waste oil must meet the requirements of Chapter IV of the Industrial Emissions Directive or switch to non-waste fuels. This guidance can be found on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environmental-permitting-guidance-the-waste-incineration-directive/environmental-permitting-guidance-waste-incineration" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environmental-permitting-guidance-the-waste-incineration-directive/environmental-permitting-guidance-waste-incineration</a>.</p><p>A consultation on the changes to the guidance was undertaken between 14 September and 26 October last year. A summary of responses can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/487892/waste-incineration-consult-sum-resp.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/487892/waste-incineration-consult-sum-resp.pdf</a>.</p><p>The impact assessment for the changes to this guidance considered some sensitivities on the price of crude oil with regard to collection fees only. The impact assessment can be found at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/487895/waste-incineration-consult-ep-ia.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/487895/waste-incineration-consult-ep-ia.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 28870 29293 29294 29295 29297 29300 question first answered 08/03/2016 13:53:18 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

175067

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Business: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to page seven of her Department's policy brief, How increased Connectivity is Boosting Prospects of Rural Areas, published in December 2014, what assessment she has made of the effect of the Skills and Knowledge Transfer Programme on business people in rural areas to date.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Huw Irranca-Davies
uin	221622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>To date, the Rural Development Programme Skills and Knowledge Transfer Programme has provided training across England for 215,000 (non-unique) participants who have completed 220,000 training days. Delivery is still underway and an evaluation will be carried out.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 27/01/2015 11:50:07 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	1476 label Biography information for Huw Irranca-Davies