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Written Question
Business: Investment
Monday 22nd April 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to help increase business investment in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the East Midlands.

Answered by Alan Mak - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) (jointly with the Cabinet Office)

The Government-owned British Business Bank is supporting business investment across the UK including through its Nations and Regions Investment Funds. This includes the £400m Midlands Engine Investment Fund II, supporting growing businesses across the Midlands.

Our Growth Hub network is also supporting businesses of all sizes and sectors across England. The Department for Business and Trade is working across the UK, including in Greater Lincolnshire to showcase strong, commercial investment opportunities to potential investors and support business to grow. The Government has also agreed a £720 million mayoral devolution deal for Greater Lincolnshire to support growth and business investment.

Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Competition and Markets Authority

Apr. 18 2024

Source Page: The CMA at 10: Past reflections and a look ahead to the next decade of promoting competition and protecting consumers
Document: UK’s open banking regime has also been called ‘the envy of the European FinTech community’ (PDF)

Found: Further afield, the Midlands is one of the largest UK regions for business, professional and financial

Lords Chamber
NHS: Long-term Sustainability - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath (Lab - Life peer) She lived from childhood until the 1980s in a huge, forbidding mental hospital in the West Midlands, - Speech Link
2: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) As I say, no one would buy a Rolls-Royce, put Coca-Cola in the engine, and expect to go 100 miles down - Speech Link

Select Committee
Angel Trains
 RRB0050 - Scrutiny of the draft Rail Reform Bill

Written Evidence Apr. 16 2024

Committee: Transport Committee (Department: Department for Transport)

Found: Express and Hitachi Rail and investing £3m to trial the replacement of an internal combustion engine

Select Committee
Creating Food Meteorites Ltd
 FDO0005 - Food, Diet and Obesity

Written Evidence Apr. 09 2024

Inquiry: Food, Diet and Obesity
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Food, Diet and Obesity Committee

Found: Sector R&D Needs and Priorities: Alignment with the Industrial Strategy’, January 2018.3 Midland Engine

Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Air Accidents Investigation Branch

Apr. 04 2024

Source Page: AAIB investigation to Beech 400A, N709EL
Document: Beech 400A, N709EL 05-24 (PDF)

Found: are UTC AAIB Bulletin: N709EL AAIB-28705History of the flight During the takeoff roll from East Midlands

Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Air Accidents Investigation Branch

Mar. 28 2024

Source Page: AAIB Annual Safety Review 2023
Document: AAIB Annual Safety Review 2023 (PDF)

Found: but a few minutes later, the No 4 engine started to lose power.

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mar. 26 2024

Source Page: East Midlands Gateway Phase 2: Section 35 Direction, Planning Act 2008
Document: Supporting appendices (PDF)

Found: East Midlands Gateway Phase 2: Section 35 Direction, Planning Act 2008

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mar. 26 2024

Source Page: East Midlands Gateway Phase 2: Section 35 Direction, Planning Act 2008
Document: Request statement on behalf of SEGRO (PDF)

Found: East Midlands Gateway Phase 2: Section 35 Direction, Planning Act 2008

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
HM Treasury

Mar. 26 2024

Source Page: Whole of Government Accounts, 2021-22
Document: (Excel)

Found: ServiceLLW Repository LimitedLow Carbon Contracts Company LtdLow Pay CommissionMagnox LimitedMidlands Engine