Asked by: Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support the Government is providing to the development of hydrogen technologies.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
Government is currently investing up to £108m in a range of innovation programmes to explore and develop the potential of low carbon hydrogen. This includes:
Government also announced the £100m Low Carbon Hydrogen Production Fund in August 2019. The Fund aims to help deploy low carbon hydrogen production capacity to enable its greater use as a decarbonisation option across the energy system.
Asked by: Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate she has made of the number of business start-ups in (a) East Hampshire constituency and (b) Hampshire in each year since 2010.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
According to ONS Business Demography UK data (the most recent of which is for 2017), the number of enterprise births for each year since 2010 for a) East Hampshire and b) Hampshire are indicated in the table below. Please note, this data refers to the number of VAT/PAYE registrations.
| East Hampshire | Hampshire (county) |
2010 | 545 | 5300 |
2011 | 620 | 5640 |
2012 | 625 | 5745 |
2013 | 690 | 7220 |
2014 | 630 | 7135 |
2015 | 740 | 7830 |
2016 | 660 | 8325 |
2017 | 685 | 7720 |