Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Dec 2020
Energy White Paper
"Of course renewables are preferable, but as the Secretary of State has just set out, for quite some way into the future we will need non-intermittent or dialable energy sources as well. The ultimate game-changer might be battery technology, which could change that balance. Will he say a little about …..."Damian Hinds - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 13th January 2020
Asked by:
Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support the Government is providing to the development of hydrogen technologies.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
Government is currently investing up to £108m in a range of innovation programmes to explore and develop the potential of low carbon hydrogen. This includes:
- Up to £20m to develop novel clean hydrogen supply methods,
- Up to £20m to test the potential for switching to hydrogen (and other low carbon fuels) across a range of industrial sectors,
- £25m to develop the safety of using 100% hydrogen in the home;
- £23m to support deployment of hydrogen vehicles and growth of refuelling infrastructure.
Government also announced the £100m Low Carbon Hydrogen Production Fund in August 2019. The Fund aims to help deploy low carbon hydrogen production capacity to enable its greater use as a decarbonisation option across the energy system.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Oct 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"To accelerate take-up, first, we need to have more people having an electric vehicle in their consideration set, so alongside communications to consumers can the Minister look at the pivotal role played by dealers in getting more people to take a test drive?..."Damian Hinds - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 08 Oct 2019
Government Plan for Net Zero Emissions
"I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton) on securing this important debate. We all know the scale of the challenge and the imperative it entails. Declaring an emergency comes easy and “net zero” trips off the tongue, but in reality, these things are difficult. …..."Damian Hinds - View Speech
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Written Question
Friday 4th October 2019
Asked by:
Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate she has made of the number of business start-ups in (a) East Hampshire constituency and (b) Hampshire in each year since 2010.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
According to ONS Business Demography UK data (the most recent of which is for 2017), the number of enterprise births for each year since 2010 for a) East Hampshire and b) Hampshire are indicated in the table below. Please note, this data refers to the number of VAT/PAYE registrations.
| East Hampshire | Hampshire (county) |
2010 | 545 | 5300 |
2011 | 620 | 5640 |
2012 | 625 | 5745 |
2013 | 690 | 7220 |
2014 | 630 | 7135 |
2015 | 740 | 7830 |
2016 | 660 | 8325 |
2017 | 685 | 7720 |