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Written Question
Bounce Back Loan Scheme
Monday 31st January 2022

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of fake companies that have obtained coronavirus Bounce Back Loans as part of the Coronavirus Bounce Back Loan scheme since that scheme was launched.

Answered by Paul Scully

This Government responded to the pandemic with over £400 billion in support for business and British jobs. Thanks to the action we took we’re now seeing a thriving jobs market with record numbers in work and our economy growing faster than many expected.

I note at the time the Government announced its support package many, including the Labour Party, were calling for the Government to lower protections.

Our latest estimate is contained in the Department’s 2020-21 Annual Report.


Written Question
Carbon Emissions
Monday 21st June 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department plans to take in response to the Environmental Audit Committee's recommendations to (a) remove the barriers to community energy and (b) implement practical support measures to enable community energy to fulfil its role of engaging people and communities in net zero.

Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The Government is supportive of community energy. We have responded to the Environmental Audit Committee’s recommendations, our response can be viewed here:

https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/62/environmental-audit-committee/publications/3/correspondence/.


Written Question
Local Growth Deals: Hartlepool
Monday 26th April 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) jobs created and (b) homes built in Hartlepool as a result of Local Growth Deals for the Tees Valley Unlimited Local Enterprise Partnership.

Answered by Paul Scully

As required by Government, Tees Valley Combined Authority publish an annual report on the progress towards delivering growth deal targets. The latest report is available here: https://teesvalley-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Tees-Valley-Combined-Authority-Delivery-Report-2019-20.pdf

That report highlights the following targets and progress across the Tees Valley:

Key performance indicator

Delivered to date

Forecast 2021 – 2025

Total Forecast

Jobs created

527

11,943

12,470

Apprenticeships created

646

420

1,066

Learners assisted

9,710

8,392

18,102

Houses completed

1,078

2,910

3,988

Detailed output figures are not available for Hartlepool.


Written Question
Local Growth Deals: Hartlepool
Monday 26th April 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much investment from local growth deals for the Tees Valley Unlimited Local Enterprise Partnership was made on projects in Hartlepool.

Answered by Paul Scully

Tees Valley Combined Authority was allocated £126million through local growth deals. As an integrated Local Enterprise Partnership and Combined Authority this formed part of a ‘single pot’ joining 24 different government funds in order to maximise programme flexibility and investment.

This overall programme of activity is detailed in Tees Valley Investment Plan 2019-2029, which is available at: https://teesvalley-ca.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Investment-Plan-2019-20-Digital.pdf

Much of this investment is for schemes benefitting all of the Tees Valley. A full list of supported projects is available at: https://teesvalley-ca.gov.uk/investment/projects/, including support for the Hartlepool Waterfront, as well as business incubation spaces, and new training facilities in the town.


Written Question
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Cities and Local Growth Unit
Monday 19th April 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many full-time equivalent staff from his Department were employed in the Cities and Local Growth Unit in each of the last five years.

Answered by Paul Scully

The Cities and Local Growth Unit is the Government’s local growth team, working across two Departments and reporting jointly into the MHCLG and BEIS Secretaries of State. In each of the last five years, BEIS FTE employed in the Cities and Local Growth Unit (CLGU) is detailed in following chart.

BEIS FTE employed in the CLGU from 2017 to *2021

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

91.1

102.4

125.8

133.1

153.4

*153.4 reflects data up to 28th February 2021


Written Question
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Cities and Local Growth Unit
Tuesday 13th April 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many full-time equivalent staff from his Department are employed in the Cities and Local Growth Unit.

Answered by Paul Scully

The Cities and Local Growth Unit is the Government’s local growth team, working across two Departments and reporting jointly into my Rt. Hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. As of 28 February 2021, the most recent date for which data is available, the Unit employed 153.4 FTE BEIS staff.


Written Question
Local Growth Deals
Monday 22nd March 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2021 to Question 149245 on Local Growth Deals, on what basis the Government has calculated that £15 billion of public and private sector investment has been leveraged through Local Growth Fund investment.

Answered by Paul Scully

Local Enterprise Partnerships provide self-reported Local Growth Fund monitoring returns on a quarterly basis. Each monitoring return is verified and approved by their Accountable Body’s Section 151 Officer or equivalent, prior to submission to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. These returns include self-reported details of private and public sector investment that has been leveraged because of the Local Growth Fund investment.


Written Question
Local Growth Deals
Friday 12th February 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding has been allocated to each Local Enterprise Partnership through the Local Growth Fund in each of the last four years.

Answered by Paul Scully

£4.3 billion has been paid to Local Enterprise Partnership through the Local Growth Fund over the course of the last four years, to unlock local economic growth through investment in infrastructure across England. A breakdown in provided in the table below.

LEP

17-18 Payment

18-19 Payment

19-20 Payment

20-21 Payment

Total Payments 2017-21

Greater Birmingham & Solihull

£25,699,444

£19,303,020

£12,716,498

£31,847,061

£89,566,023

Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough

£12,346,916

£16,705,458

£15,875,346

£35,737,637

£80,665,357

Greater Manchester

£127,373,045

£78,046,764

£47,904,463

£77,808,212

£331,132,484

Liverpool City Region

£53,563,639

£40,908,525

£27,084,532

£87,797,976

£209,354,672

London

£41,627,017

£35,379,854

£29,213,502

£83,631,227

£189,851,600

Sheffield City Region

£86,850,906

£42,471,649

£29,867,716

£43,238,940

£202,429,211

Tees Valley

£27,989,035

£13,708,247

£9,416,075

£14,216,773

£65,330,130

West of England

£49,831,528

£45,370,085

£13,575,065

£34,312,381

£143,089,059

North East

£42,505,549

£51,706,129

£28,063,127

£14,550,627

£136,825,432

Black Country

£31,264,295

£19,527,429

£19,044,119

£32,948,081

£102,783,924

Buckinghamshire Thames Valley

£10,873,571

£11,878,931

£3,050,399

£5,749,716

£31,552,617

Cheshire and Warrington

£18,269,116

£16,015,902

£8,234,770

£24,905,206

£67,424,994

Coast to Capital

£51,406,700

£45,815,341

£35,757,082

£47,281,837

£180,260,960

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

£16,731,067

£6,434,534

£4,772,967

£11,717,698

£39,656,266

Coventry & Warwickshire

£23,122,974

£14,858,866

£8,214,575

£24,561,463

£70,757,878

Cumbria

£7,123,593

£6,057,068

£6,818,265

£11,694,598

£31,693,524

Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

£66,388,375

£32,359,889

£17,424,093

£40,086,356

£156,258,713

Dorset

£15,859,638

£19,368,567

£14,045,722

£12,741,255

£62,015,182

Enterprise M3

£45,663,923

£36,807,289

£17,491,536

£42,685,284

£142,648,032

Gloucestershire

£9,254,854

£8,499,446

£20,482,684

£14,856,992

£53,093,976

Greater Lincolnshire

£12,687,335

£8,733,858

£6,809,606

£18,153,052

£46,383,851

Heart of the South West

£36,132,181

£9,985,696

£13,146,492

£38,458,629

£97,722,998

Hertfordshire

£33,455,875

£42,585,327

£29,765,956

£27,274,460

£133,081,618

Humber

£27,269,412

£12,721,021

£11,050,217

£22,232,046

£73,272,696

Lancashire

£44,719,382

£34,856,510

£31,960,020

£38,640,069

£150,175,981

Leeds City Region

£72,228,329

£74,349,287

£73,510,320

£100,338,062

£320,425,998

Leicester & Leicestershire

£23,968,028

£15,694,684

£12,932,202

£17,896,716

£70,491,630

New Anglia

£41,334,111

£34,659,957

£24,661,848

£47,412,132

£148,068,048

Oxfordshire

£14,015,357

£11,813,194

£24,304,685

£14,290,548

£64,423,784

Solent

£24,302,028

£10,817,860

£9,252,686

£9,252,686

£53,625,260

South East

£92,088,396

£91,738,956

£54,914,715

£77,873,075

£316,615,142

South East Midlands

£23,738,436

£18,334,147

£28,912,343

£49,938,631

£120,923,557

Stoke and Staffordshire

£17,518,643

£11,283,922

£6,370,448

£15,345,059

£50,518,072

Swindon and Wiltshire

£19,279,293

£20,870,160

£16,117,812

£16,627,417

£72,894,682

Thames Valley Berkshire

£26,442,132

£29,417,022

£6,177,667

£19,874,541

£81,911,362

The Marches

£9,647,163

£8,187,720

£4,602,978

£12,626,193

£35,064,054

Worcestershire

£15,325,957

£4,853,087

£3,624,437

£10,368,876

£34,172,357

York, North Yorkshire, East Riding

£10,195,309

£23,651,587

£6,511,540

£14,632,518

£54,990,954

Total

£1,308,092,552

£1,025,776,988

£733,678,508

£1,243,604,030

£4,311,152,078


Written Question
Local Growth Deals
Friday 12th February 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many projects have been delivered in each Local Enterprise Partnership through Local Growth Deals in each round of the Growth Deal programme.

Answered by Paul Scully

All payments from the 3 rounds of Growth Deals have been issued to Local Enterprise partnerships (LEPs) as of last year. LEPs are continuing to deliver the projects funded under these deals and currently there are 2109 Local Growth Fund (LGF) projects across all 38 LEPs as shown in the table.

LEP

Total Projects

Black County

64

Buckinghamshire Thames Valley

34

Cheshire and Warrington

59

Coast to Capital

88

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

27

Coventry and Warwickshire

35

Cumbria

34

Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

55

Dorset

39

Enterprise M3

88

Greater Lincolnshire

36

Gloucestershire

28

Greater Manchester

69

Greater Cambridge and Peterborough

51

Heart of the South West

53

Hertfordshire

67

Humber

51

Lancashire

52

London

143

Leeds City Region

160

Leicester

20

Liverpool City Region

138

New Anglia

48

North East

63

Oxfordshire

31

Sheffield City Region

80

Solent

38

South East

94

South East Midlands

58

Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire

32

Swindon and Wiltshire

24

Tees Valley

48

Thames Valley Berkshire

43

The Marches

21

West of England

50

Worcestershire

24

York, North Yorkshire and East Riding

64

Total Projects

2109


Written Question
Local Growth Deals
Friday 12th February 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

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 calculated an estimate of the return on investment from projects delivered by Local Growth Deals funding for each of those deals agreed with Local Enterprise Partnerships; and if he will publish that calculation.

Answered by Paul Scully

The Local Growth Fund has invested in high value projects in England to boost local economic growth, including transport, skill, business support and housing projects to name but a few. This has empowered local areas to identify and bring forward genuine local priorities.

Local Enterprise Partnerships have reported that, to date over £15 billion of public and private sector investment has been leveraged through Local Growth Fund investment.