The Government keeps energy efficiency support for businesses, including SMEs, under review. Existing initiatives include an exemption on business rates for green technology, providing small businesses grants under the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, and offering industry £289m for energy efficiency and low carbon technologies.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1482", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Graham Stuart"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Beverley and Holderness"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Graham Stuart"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2022-09-28", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2022-09-28T15:26:23.447Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "201"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2022-09-21", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Small Businesses: Energy"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing more funding to help SMEs improve their energy efficiency.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4253", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Seema Malhotra"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Feltham and Heston"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Seema Malhotra"} ], "uin" : "53407"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1507411", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1507411/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The Government has allocated £100 million to the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles to create a European-leading commercial market for connected and automated mobility (CAM) in the UK by 2025<\/a>, building on £400 million joint investment with industry and unlocking at least £790 million further private investment.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of private investment that will be leveraged in by the Government's £100 million of new Research and Development funding for the commercial deployment of connected and self-driving technologies.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1507416/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) allocations were published on 30 May 2022, with total of £25.1 billion for 2022-25 and funding will reach its highest ever level in 2024-25 (over £8.8 billion). UKRI\u2019s strategy sets out long-term, high-level priorities for an outstanding research and innovation system in the UK and funding will be allocated in line with this strategy. The proportion of Innovate UK funds that are awarded to academic institutions is not determined in advance, but they will continue to play an important role in delivering Innovate UK\u2019s mission.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 26 July 2022 to Question 38656, whether the Total Award by Innovate UK and Award to Academic Institutions will recover to similar sums spent in the years (a) 2017, (b) 2018, (c) 2019 and (d) 2020 during this current award year.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1506518/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Current and historical plant capacities are published in Energy Trends Table 6.1.[1]<\/sup> These represent the maximum generation that might be produced by all renewable generators in any given quarter. For future years, indicative, Net Zero-consistent, power sector projections are published in Annex O of the Energy and Emission Projections.[2]<\/sup><\/p> <\/p> These show a current renewable capacity of 43 GW, with renewable capacity potentially increasing year-on-year (to 2050) to between 157 and 242 GW.<\/p> <\/p> No estimate is made of the exact maximum output that these generators will produce as load factors vary significantly with weather, geographical location, and time.<\/p> <\/p> [1]<\/sup> https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-section-6-renewables<\/a><\/em><\/p>