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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the SME Climate Hub at encouraging businesses to sign up to that campaign.

The 2,730 UK businesses who have made SME Climate Commitments and joined the Race to Zero represent ~80% of global signups. We continue to work with the international SME Climate Hub team to improve the platform content with additional tools, and that of the UK Business Climate Hub through case studies and other features.

The UK Business Climate Hub, a UK page developed by the Government which is embedded in the international SME Climate Hub, attracted an average of 3,000 visitors per day, or 90,000 per month in the months leading up to COP26.