Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jan 2022
Reducing Costs for Businesses
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jan 2022
Reducing Costs for Businesses
"May I ask the hon. Gentleman to point out to the House that this country’s trade deficit in the last few months has narrowed, not widened, as he has just suggested?..."Lord Grayling - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jan 2022
Reducing Costs for Businesses
"I refer the House to my entry in the Register.
I have great respect for the hon. Member for Stalybridge and Hyde (Jonathan Reynolds). He deserves to sit in the front rank of his party, but I have to differ from him when he says that this Government have provided …..."Lord Grayling - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jan 2022
Reducing Costs for Businesses
"The hon. Gentleman knows from experience, when this country has been through bad times, how devastating unemployment can be for communities, when people are looking for jobs and cannot find them. Today, if people are looking for jobs in our workforce, the opportunities are a whole lot better than they …..."Lord Grayling - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 13th April 2021
Asked by:
Lord Grayling (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it is his policy to finance participation in Horizon Europe from the existing budgets for the UK Research and Innovation Fund.
Answered by Amanda Solloway
I am pleased that the UK reached an agreement to take part in the Horizon Europe programme. Association to Horizon has been welcomed by businesses and the research community and will bring huge benefits to the UK.
The Government will be making available an additional £250m in 2021/22 for Horizon association. Also, £400m of funding announced at SR20 to support government priorities has been made available to help pay for our association to Horizon Europe. As a result, UK scientists will have access to more public funding than ever before.
This takes total Government investment in R&D to £14.9 billion in 2021/22 and follows four years of significant growth in R&D funding, including a boost of more than £1.5 billion in 2020/21. It will mean UK Government R&D spending is now at its highest level in four decades.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Feb 2021
Oral Answers to Questions
" What assessment he has made of the capacity of the UK to produce green hydrogen. ..."Lord Grayling - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Feb 2021
Oral Answers to Questions
"My right hon. Friend is right to talk about both forms of hydrogen. Ideally, of course, we would all be using entirely green hydrogen—as she knows, there are problems with the renewable transport fuel obligation, which I hope she will be able to sort out—but blue hydrogen is going to …..."Lord Grayling - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 18th January 2021
Asked by:
Lord Grayling (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what obligation energy providers have to offer a service to business customers.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Unlike for domestic customers, energy suppliers are not obligated by their supply licence to offer a service to business customers. Contractual terms offered to businesses are a commercial matter for energy suppliers. An offer of a supply contract could depend upon a number of factors, such as the type of business, estimated amount and volatility of consumption, the customer’s credit score and length of contract required. We would encourage businesses to shop around to find the best deal.