Asked by: Alan Brown (Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will take steps to ensure that representatives of the environmental horticulture industry are included in her Department's Domestic Advisory Group.
Answered by Greg Hands
The UK has established two Domestic Advisory Groups to meet the requirements of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) and several trade and sustainability chapters within our FTAs. The organisational membership of the UK TCA Domestic Advisory Group, and the Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) Domestic Advisory Group, includes representative bodies from both the agricultural and environmental sectors in the UK.
The membership of the UK TCA and TSD Domestic Advisory Groups will be reviewed in 2024 and 2025 respectively. DBT and the FCDO will consider new applications during this process and encourage interested organisations to apply.
Asked by: Alan Brown (Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2023 to Question 196337 on Batteries: Factories, for what reason the financial support figure to Tata was not set out in the previous answer.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani
The Government continues to work with investors through our Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF) to progress plans to build a globally competitive electric vehicle supply chain in the UK.
We are engaging with a number of other companies to secure investment into the UK, so it would not be appropriate to reveal commercially sensitive figures.
We will publish details of any subsidy on the UK Subsidy Database (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/view-subsidies-awarded-by-uk-government), in line with our statutory obligations, in due course.
Asked by: Alan Brown (Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much from the public purse will be spent on support for the proposed Tata Group gigafactory.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani
Details of our support to Tata Group will be published in due course as part of our regular transparency data.