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1254893

registered interest
date	24/11/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Directors: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many directors of small companies file their PAYE RTI returns annually.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	120185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2020 answer text <p>PAYE schemes that pay their employees annually all in the same tax month may register as an ‘annual scheme’. Further information can be found on gov.uk at the following link (see section: Annual payroll scheme for PAYE): <a href="https://www.gov.uk/running-payroll/changing-paydays" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/running-payroll/changing-paydays</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information on which PAYE schemes are operated by small companies and which are operated by other types of employer such as sole traders and partnerships is not readily available for all PAYE schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Among all PAYE schemes, not just those that are operated by small companies, the number of registered PAYE schemes that were live on 8 October 2020 (the date this information was extracted) and were registered as an ‘annual scheme’ was 33,300.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 119963 question first answered 02/12/2020 15:30:06 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1254442

registered interest
date	23/11/2020
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Investment Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what his timeframe is for making available funding from the Youth Investment Fund.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	119433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2020 answer text <p>Government recognises the significant impact of Covid-19 on young people, particularly the most vulnerable, and on the youth services that support them. A £16.5m Youth Covid-19 Support Fund has been announced which will protect the immediate future of grassroots and national youth organisations across the country.</p><p>The funding will be allocated from the Government’s unprecedented £750 million package of support which is benefiting tens of thousands of frontline charities, so they can continue their vital work. More than £60 million of this package has already been provided to organisations working with vulnerable children and young people.</p><p>The Youth Investment Fund remains a manifesto commitment for transformative levelling up across the country over the course of the parliament. In the recent announced Spending Review £30m of this was committed as capital investment for 2021-22. This will provide a transformational investment in new and refurbished safe spaces for young people, so they can access support youth workers, and positive activities out of school, including sport and culture. Further details of the timetable for allocation will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 01/12/2020 15:19:56 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1254072

registered interest
date	20/11/2020
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	Environment Protection: Job Creation
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 increase the number of green jobs.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	909296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government has set out its ambitious Ten Point Plan for a green industrial revolution – an innovative and ambitious programme of job creation that will support levelling up and up to 250,000 jobs across the country.</p><p>Spanning clean energy, buildings, transport, nature and innovative technologies, the plan will mobilise £12 billion of government investment to unlock three times as much private sector investment by 2030.</p><p>It presents a vision for the UK that is greener, more prosperous and at the forefront of industries for the future, taking advantage of export opportunities in new, global emerging markets in low carbon technologies and services, while reinvigorating our industrial heartlands, including in the North East, North West, the Midlands, Scotland and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 26/11/2020 14:47:45 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1253828

registered interest
date	19/11/2020
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	Hydrogen
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 (a) green and (b) blue hydrogen will be included in his Department's target of 5GW low carbon hydrogen production capacity.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	118140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to developing hydrogen as a decarbonised energy carrier, as confirmed in the Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution announced by the Prime Minister on 18<sup>th</sup> November.</p><p> </p><p>The Plan set out that the Government, working with industry, is aiming for 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity in the UK by 2030, to set us on the right pathway to net zero by 2050.</p><p> </p><p>The Ten Point Plan package aims to bring forward a combination of commercial-scale CCUS-enabled ‘blue’ hydrogen and smaller scale electrolytic ‘green’ hydrogen projects. Both these production methods – and other innovative techniques – will be needed to deliver UK hydrogen demand expected by 2050.</p><p> </p><p>This twin-track approach to policy development will enable production to be brought forward at the necessary scale during the 2020s, to grow the supply chain and build confidence in the sector, whilst scaling up green hydrogen which is likely to dominate the global market in the long term. The levels of green and blue hydrogen production that make up the 5GW will depend on market developments in the 2020s.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 27/11/2020 12:51:04 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1253436

registered interest
date	18/11/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: Israel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress she has made in discussions with Israel on an agreement for further trade co-operation beyond the trade continuity deal.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	117398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2020 answer text <p>I refer my Hon. Friend, the Member for Rother Valley, to the answer that my Rt. Honourable Friend, Minister Jayawardena, gave to the Honourable Member for Buckingham on 19 November 2020 to Question UIN 909006.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 26/11/2020 19:27:49 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1253437

registered interest
date	18/11/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Medicine: Israel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to strengthen the UK's trade relationship with Israel in medical research and development.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	117399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2020 answer text <p>The United Kingdom and Israel have a strong and important trading relationship, and we are committed to strengthening it further.</p><p> </p><p>That’s why, to promote international collaboration on Science and Innovation, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office jointly funded our Science and Innovation Network (SIN), based in over 40 countries around the world. The priorities for British engagement with Israel are set by Industry Strategy and the United Kingdom-Israel Science Council, a group of 30 leading scientist and policymakers from both countries, chaired by the British Ambassador in Israel.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Further, through the UK-Israel tech hub, the UK-Israel Dangoor Healthcare Initiative was established to create a pipeline of the best Israeli healthcare innovations for the United Kingdom’s healthcare sector. Information on its most recent projects can be found <a href="https://www.ukisraelhub.com/2nd-cohort-of-dangoor-health-initiative-kicks-off/#:~:text=The%20UK%20Israel%20Dangoor%20Healthcare,business%20navigation%20services%20by%20DigitalHealth." target="_blank">here</a>.</p> answering member constituency North East Hampshire answering member printed Mr Ranil Jayawardena question first answered 01/12/2020 11:44:34 answering member 4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1253438

registered interest
date	18/11/2020
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	Carbon Emissions: Public Expenditure and Infrastructure
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 introduce a net zero test for all infrastructure policy and spending decisions made by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	117400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2020 answer text <p>The UK’s climate change framework enables the Government to determine how best to balance emissions reductions across the economy. Any net emissions increase from infrastructure projects are managed within the Government’s overall strategy for meeting carbon budgets and the 2050 net zero target, as part of an economy-wide transition.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 27/11/2020 12:29:14 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1253439

registered interest
date	18/11/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to publish the National Infrastructure Strategy; and what steps he plans to take to ensure that the infrastructure selected for investment aligns with the Government's net zero emissions target.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	117401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2020 answer text <p>The UK was the first major economy in the world to legislate our 2050 Net Zero commitment last year and transforming the UK’s infrastructure will be vital to meeting this target. The National Infrastructure Strategy has set out the UK’s long-term ambitions on economic infrastructure, including on decarbonisation, building on the Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 26/11/2020 16:10:55 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1253440

registered interest
date	18/11/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using carbon taxes to incentivise (a) carbon capture and storage, (b) hydrogen and (c) other Net Zero-focussed innovation fuel technologies to decarbonise (i) industry and (ii) transport.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	117402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2020 answer text <p>The UK is committed to carbon pricing as a tool to drive decarbonisation to support our transition to a Net Zero economy by 2050.</p><p>The Government will implement an ambitious and effective carbon pricing regime to replace our membership of the EU Emissions Trading System following the Transition Period and is legislating to establish potential negotiated and alternative options to support this.</p><p> </p><p>A linked UK Emissions Trading System (UK ETS) remains the Government’s preferred option, provided that any link negotiated suits both sides’ interests. As outlined in a Government Consultation Document published in July 2020, a Carbon Emissions Tax is being explored as an alternative option.</p><p> </p><p>As part of its consultation on the Carbon Emissions Tax this summer, the government set out proposals to incentivise decarbonisation of industry and other sectors through taxation. A summary of responses will be issued shortly.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the government agrees that technologies such as hydrogen and Carbon Capture and Storage are important in helping the UK reach its climate targets. With this in mind, the government recently committed to £12bn of investment in the Green Industrial Revolution as part of the recently published 10 Point Plan. The aim of this investment is to create and support up to 250,000 highly-skilled green jobs in the UK, spurring over three times as much private sector investment by 2030 and ultimately accelerating the UK’s path to Net Zero.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 26/11/2020 16:12:26 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1253441

registered interest
date	18/11/2020
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	Carbon Emissions: Research
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 in place to implement (a) standardised climate reporting metrics and (b) carbon taxation while supporting UK net zero emissions research and development in sectors that will be subject to carbon penalties.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	117403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2020 answer text <p>Meeting net zero and delivering the global transition to a low carbon economy will require unprecedented levels of investment in green technologies, services and infrastructure. The Government launched an ambitious 10 Point Plant this month, which will mobilise £12 billion of Government investment to unlock three times as much private sector investment by 2030. This sets out a strong framework for investment, with a clear signals to investors of our commitment to net zero by 2050. As set out by the Chancellor in November 2020, the UK will become the first G20 country to make TCFD-aligned disclosures fully mandatory across the economy, with most requirements introduced in the next three years. This will provide decision-useful information to investors on the exposure of companies, asset managers and asset owners to climate risks.</p><p> </p><p>The UK remains committed to carbon pricing as a key policy in decarbonising its economy and reducing industrial emissions, and will introduce an effective new system from 1 January 2021.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 27/11/2020 12:33:31 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford