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The UK economy confronts challenges to growth, weak productivity and fragile investment. Businesses face rising costs, regulatory uncertainty, and a complex trade environment.  

Found: Academy for Rail (NTAR) that opened in 2015 following a 50/50 investment by Siemens and NSAR with DfT/BEIS

Found: alongside the Chief Executive, responsible for the shaping of the Agency and its relationship with BEIS

Found: CaCHE 28 'The Great Retrofit' by BCIS 29 'International Review of Domestic Retrofit Supply Chains' by BEIS

Found: This funding could come from the same sources that provide retrofit funding (DESNZ, formerly BEIS),

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what information his Department holds on meetings between Jeffrey Epstein and former Ministers from his Department.

Answered by Kate Dearden - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) do not hold any records on meetings between Jeffrey Epstein and former Ministers from his Department. The records of meetings for the former Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and former Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) transferred to the former Department for Business Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), and are held by Integrated Corporate Services (ICS) following machinery of Government changes.

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what records his Department holds on the (a) meetings and (b) correspondence sent by Lord Mandelson when he was Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Answered by Kate Dearden - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)

The Department for Business and Trade do not hold any records on meetings and correspondence sent by Lord Mandelson as his mailboxes from his time as Secretary of State are held by Integrated Corporate Services (ICS) on behalf of the former Department for Business Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), who inherited the records of the former Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and former Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) following machinery of Government changes.

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department took to undertake due diligence in relation to the National Investigation Service before its funding for that body to enhance counter-fraud work was announced in the Spring Statement 2022.

Answered by Blair McDougall - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)

At the time of the Spring Statement 2022 the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) had commissioned and managed NATIS to undertake potentially fraudulent covid loan investigations.

Through the Machinery of Government changes accountability for NATIS passed to DBT in February 2023. Financial, Commercial and Security due diligence was completed by DBT in preparation for the contract that commenced April 2024.

Found: Treasury, Summer Budget 2015, 8 July 2015, section 3.2 78 HC Deb 8 July 2015, c338 79 DBT and BEIS

Found: the energy policy responsibilities of the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS

Found: certain circumstances, notify the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS

Found: Estimates 2018-19CDELBusiness, Energy & Industrial StrategyBudget Cover TransferBudget Cover Transfer from BEIS

Found: disproportionately burdening those who might find the new requirement more 82 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Found: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Found: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (excl. agencies) 425

Found: Research into issues around the commercialisation of university Intellectual Property (RSM, 2018, for BEIS

Found: 0.00024401105280162 -1.47957837 -0.300985144516185 -0.170741 -0.0473366957327913 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Found: 3.606948 0.000433577200063146 0 0.0 0 0.0 3.436207 0.000412944293563592 0 0.0 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Found: Note there was a lag in BEIS being notified of these re-allocations.From the February 2022 publication

Found: Note there was a lag in BEIS being notified of these re-allocations.

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Found: CfD subsidy with any other subsidies granted in respect of the same eligible project costs. 29 BEIS

Found: In 2022, the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published a review of next

Found: EPSRC; European Commission; World Health Organisation; NIHR; Pfizer Ltd; Met Office; Innovate UK, BEIS

Found: the Earth 23 UKRI (n.d.a). 24 DSIT & MoD (2023a). 25 These values are in current prices. 26 BEIS

Found: lead to BECCS having the largest modelled contribution to CO2 removals through 2050 (RS & RAE, 2018; BEIS

Found: available equipment to a powder, which is screened to produce rock dust (The Future Forest Company / BEIS

Found: Availability: According to BEIS (2021), the majority of biomass supplied in the UK comes from forestry

Found: London: Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy. BEIS, 2021a.

Found: BECCS has a technology readiness level (TRL) of ~7 (BEIS, 2021)1, with two pilot projects underway in

Found: , several universities and pilot projects are exploring and demonstrating DACCS at a small-scale (BEIS

Found: Previous work by BEIS (2023) looked at CO₂ containment certainty on the UK continental shelf and assumed

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Found: Energy, Security and Net Zero The Mining Remediation Authority 22/07/2025 Research & Development (BEIS

Found: Energy, Security and Net Zero The Mining Remediation Authority 23/09/2025 Research & Development (BEIS

Found: including the State Honours Committee (Cabinet Office), the Higher Education Funding Council for England (BEIS

Found: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs DESNZ Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (formally BEIS

Found: Energy, Security and Net Zero The Mining Remediation Authority 10/07/2025 Research & Development (BEIS

Found: this in mind, NPL entered a partnering agreement on 1 April 2015 with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Found: this in mind, NPL entered a partnering agreement on 1 April 2015 with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Found: this in mind, NPL entered a partnering agreement on 1 April 2015 with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Found: This included dialogue directly with the MoJ and BEIS (now known as Business and Trade) outlining the

Found: In line with guidance issued by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the

Found: transition period, we have been involved in discussions with the MoJ and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Found: In line with guidance issued by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the

Found: In line with guidance issued by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the

Found: In line with guidance issued by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the

Found: In line with guidance issued by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the

Found: Programme by the Department of Health and Social Care in conjunction with Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Found: State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS

Found: Ms Harrison worked at BEIS before joining the Cabinet Office several years ago and has

Found: Programme has been approved at both Strategic Outline Business Case and Outline Business Case stage by the BEIS

Found: carbon dioxide removal 2024 - 2nd Edition. https://www.stateofcdr.org/. 70 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Found: State for Communities and Local Government Secretary of State for ustice Secretary of State for BEIS

Found: carbon dioxide removal 2024 - 2nd Edition. https://www.stateofcdr.org/. 70 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Found: Any correspondence or submissions from bodies such as NATS, DEFRA, BEIS, Transport Scotland, or foreign

Found: and, for context, we attach a copy of letter to The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP (Secretary of State for BEIS