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Written Question
Hydrogen: Technology
Monday 13th January 2020

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:

  • Up to £20m to develop novel clean hydrogen supply methods,
  • Up to £20m to test the potential for switching to hydrogen (and other low carbon fuels) across a range of industrial sectors,
  • £25m to develop the safety of using 100% hydrogen in the home;
  • £23m to support deployment of hydrogen vehicles and growth of refuelling infrastructure.

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.


Written Question
New Businesses: Hampshire
Friday 4th October 2019

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