Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes in Feltham and Heston constituency had solar power panels installed as of 31 October 2022.
Answered by Graham Stuart
At the end of October 2022, there were 742 domestic installations of solar panels recorded in Feltham and Heston constituency.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes in Feltham and Heston constituency with lofts had loft insulation installed as of 31 October 2022.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Government estimates that under the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and Green Homes Grant (GHG) schemes, around 900 loft insulation measures, around 200 under floor insulation measures and 49 external wall insulation measures have been installed in Feltham and Heston constituency.
Data for ECO covers January 2013 to September 2022. Data for the GHG schemes covers October 2020 to September 2022.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes in Feltham and Heston had under floor insulation installed as of 31 October 2022.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Government estimates that under the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and Green Homes Grant (GHG) schemes, around 900 loft insulation measures, around 200 under floor insulation measures and 49 external wall insulation measures have been installed in Feltham and Heston constituency.
Data for ECO covers January 2013 to September 2022. Data for the GHG schemes covers October 2020 to September 2022.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes in Feltham and Heston constituency have had heat pumps installed as of 31 October 2022.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Microgeneration Certification Scheme Installations Database shows that as of 31 October 2022, ten heat pump installations were registered in the Feltham and Heston constituency.
The database does not include all heat pump installations, for example, those installed without Government funding support, such as in new buildings. These are not typically recorded in the Microgeneration Certification Scheme Installations Database.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes in Feltham and Heston constituency had external wall insulation installed as of 31 October 2022.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Government estimates that under the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and Green Homes Grant (GHG) schemes, around 900 loft insulation measures, around 200 under floor insulation measures and 49 external wall insulation measures have been installed in Feltham and Heston constituency.
Data for ECO covers January 2013 to September 2022. Data for the GHG schemes covers October 2020 to September 2022.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the number of business deaths in the last quarter in (a) the UK and (b) each G7 country.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave her on 3rd November 2022 to Question 72282.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has had recent discussions with relevant stakeholders on tackling late invoice payments to small and medium sized enterprises.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Government recognises the impact late invoice payments have on small and medium businesses and engages with a range of businesses to understand these challenges as well as explore ways to mitigate them.
We are tackling the culture of late payments, which is still affecting too many small businesses, through a range of measures, including the Small Business Commissioner, Payment Practices Reporting and Prompt Payment Code. The Code was last reviewed and changes made in 2021, we will keep these measures under review and bring forward further changes where necessary.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many staff worked for Companies House in October 2022.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
As of 31st October 2022, Companies House headcount was 1213 staff (1129.63 full time equivalents). These figures exclude all contractors, non-executives and people on loan or secondment.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many business deaths there were in (a) the UK and (b) each of the G7 countries excluding the UK in the last quarter.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
In Q3 2022, there were 95,315 business closures in the UK.
Source – Business demography, quarterly experimental statistics (ONS)
The table below provides the latest figures on the number of business exits for each of the G7 countries, where available:
Country | Business exit | Time period |
Canada | 118,736 | Q3 2021 |
France | Data not available | |
Germany | 155,233 | Q1 2022 |
Italy | 66,814 | Q2 2022 |
Japan | Data not available | |
United States | 390,000 | Q2 2021 |
Source - Timely Indicators of Entrepreneurship by Enterprise Characteristics - Number of enterprise exits (OECD)
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much public funding his Department has provided to SMEs to (a) transition to renewable energy and (b) reach net zero since December 2019.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Government is continuing to support UK businesses to meet their net zero commitments via the UK Business Climate Hub. Alongside providing advice and guidance on net zero, small UK businesses are encouraged to join the UN’s ‘Race to Zero’ initiative – a global effort to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases to zero by 2050. Currently, more than 3,639 UK small businesses have joined the Race to Zero.
The new £450 million Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) offers grants up to £6,000 towards heat pumps and, in limited circumstances, biomass boilers. The scheme is open to both domestic and small non-domestic properties.