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.
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:
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.
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.
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 |
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.
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.
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 |
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 |
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.