Asked by: David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many grants have been awarded to the owners of electric and hybrid vehicles.
Answered by Claire Perry
From January 2011 to the end of June 2017 more than 100,000 purchasers of ultra low emission cars have received support from the plug-in car grant (currently up to £4,500) and more than 3,000 purchasers of ultra low emission vans have received up to £8,000 support from the plug-in van grant. Since its launch last year the plug-in motorcycle grant has also supported the purchase of a small number of zero emission motorcycles. In addition more than 37,000 installations of domestic chargepoints have been supported by the electric vehicle homecharge scheme since September 2014.
Asked by: David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish the outcome of the statutory review of the Groceries Code Adjudicator.
Answered by Margot James
The public consultation for the statutory review of the Groceries Code Adjudicator ran from 18 October 2016 to 10 January 2017. Responses are currently being analysed and the outcome will be published by the end of May.
Asked by: David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the Government has made of the effectiveness of the work of the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance in driving investment in developing countries.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (“the Lab”) is regularly assessed as part of standard programme evaluation. It has performed well and scored an “A” in the last Annual Review (which is publicly available). The Lab has so far catalysed $600million of investment in mitigation and adaptation instruments to climate change in developing countries.
Link to last Annual Review: https://aidstream.org/files/documents/CMCI-Annual-Review-Aug14-Jul16-20160823090802.pdf
Asked by: David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much government funding has been invested in the Capital Markets Climate Initiative since the launch of that initiative.
Answered by Nick Hurd
To date, we have invested £2.57million in the Capital Markets Climate Initiative. This was set up to help us understand the barriers to investment in renewable energy projects in developing countries and facilitate the quick transition of such projects from talk to action, with a particular focus on unlocking flows of private finance. The CMCI programme includes the Global Innovation Lab (the ‘Lab’), which has been endorsed by the Leaders of G7 countries. The Lab has so far catalysed $600million of investments through the instruments it has developed.
Asked by: David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government has any plans to introduce a scheme similar to the Science and Society Community Challenge grant scheme in the next 12 months.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
The Science and Society Community Challenge grant scheme offered support for pilot projects in any part of the UK engaging local communities in science. The Department has no current plans to introduce a similar scheme.