Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much core funding her Department plans to provide to Growth Hubs in each remaining year of the Spending Review period (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
No final decision has been made on the level of core funding for the network of 38 Growth Hubs across England after 31 March 2023. As with previous years, we will inform Growth Hubs’ parent Local Enterprise Partnerships and Combined Authorities at the earliest opportunity.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what has been the total expenditure on the Help To Grow: Digital scheme in financial years (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Data on the Help to Grow: Digital scheme will be released in Spring 2023 after the scheme has fully closed.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many businesses made use of the Help To Grow: Digital scheme during its lifespan.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Data on the Help to Grow: Digital scheme will be released in Spring 2023 after the scheme has fully closed.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when she will publish the independent evaluation of the Peer Networks Programme reported in paragraph 111 of the Industrial Development Act 1982: Annual Report 2021 to 2022.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The independent evaluation of the Peer Networks Programme is in progress, and the final report will be published this summer.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2023 to Question 121033 on Trade Promotion, when she will publish the evidence on the Export Support Team’s services’ performance and satisfaction that the Department is now in the process of collecting.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Export Client Survey launched in 2018 and the findings for the 2018-2019 financial year have been published: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-export-client-survey-ecs.
We intend to publish the subsequent Export Client Survey findings as per the Department’s monitoring and evaluation strategy and in line with the Government Social Research protocol.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2023 to Question 134004 on Trade Promotion, when she will publish the findings of the Export Client Survey for financial years (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, (c) 2021-22 and (d) 2022-23.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Export Client Survey launched in 2018 and the findings for the 2018-2019 financial year have been published: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-export-client-survey-ecs.
We intend to publish the subsequent Export Client Survey findings as per the Department’s monitoring and evaluation strategy and in line with the Government Social Research protocol.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to progress the Government's proposed Audit Reform Bill.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Government is committed to legislating when Parliamentary time allows. The Secretary of State is considering priorities across her new Department’s range of responsibilities, and will discuss them with Cabinet colleagues as necessary.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether (a) regulatory and (b) prosecution powers have been lost by the Office for Product Safety and Standards following the UK's exit from the EU.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Office for Product Safety and Standards did not lose any regulatory or prosecution powers following the UK’s exit from the EU.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of tier-one suppliers to his Department with contracts worth more than £1 million published relevant sub-contract opportunities on Contracts Finder in the financial year 2021-2022.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
We do not hold the requested information. Contracts Finder is for government departments to publish contracts and opportunities. The awarded supplier of a contract does not publish on Contracts Finder.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many companies have been the subject of private legal action for breach of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 in each of the last five years.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This information is not held centrally by the Department. Details from higher courts of record about the outcomes of legal action under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 may be available online through The National Archives "Find Case Law” search facility, which is the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice and His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Services.