Sarah Jones

68788 • Business Premises: Empty Property

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of EPC requirements for commercial properties on trends in the level of empty office accommodation.

67900 • Housing: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy 2025, published on 23 June 2025, if he will provide a breakdown of where he plans for the 41,000 new homes in the West Midlands to be built; and what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on this matter.

68572 • British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that decision making about the return of the BCSSS investment reserve can be made as swiftly as possible.

69011 • Business: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to encourage business investment in (a) Sutton Coldfield constituency and (b) the West Midlands.

62821 • Manufacturing Industries: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan, published on 23 June 2025, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that investment in advanced manufacturing is allocated to rural communities.

68172 • Clean Energy: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to his oral contribution of 15 July 2025 during Energy Security and Net Zero Questions, when the Clean Energy Skills Plan will be published; and which industry stakeholders his Department has had discussions with on that plan.

68223 • Fuel Cells

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he plans to take to support the home-grown hydrogen fuel cell sector in the proposed Hydrogen strategy.

68600 • Fuel Cells

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that home-grown hydrogen fuel cell developers are supported by the (a) Modern Industrial Strategy and (b) Clean Energy Industries sector plan.

67417 • Biomethane

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of different rules on the eligibility of biomethane to the (a) UK and (b) EU emissions trading scheme on costs to industry.

67439 • UK Emissions Trading Scheme: Methane

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department plans to include methane in the UK Emissions Trading Scheme.

67483 • Business: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Strategic Investment Opportunities Unit within the Office for Investment supports SMEs and scale-ups to access investment in (a) Basildon and Billericay constituency and (b) other areas outside major conurbations.

67487 • Foreign Investment in UK: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities in Essex to deliver place-based foreign direct investment strategies in line with the Harrington Review recommendations.

67670 • DRIVE35 Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential contribution of the Drive35 programme to the UK's domestic supply chain resilience in the automotive sector.

67671 • DRIVE35 Programme: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that SMEs can access funding opportunities under the Drive35 programme.

67672 • DRIVE35 Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what mechanisms are in place to monitor delivery partners' performance in disbursing Drive35 programme funding.

67679 • Investment: France

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled Industrial strategy partnership: joint statement between the UK and France, published on 11 July 2025, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the implementation of bilateral investment projects.

67934 • Industry: Trade Competitiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to p.30 of The UK's Modern Industrial Strategy, published on 23 June 2025, what his Department's timetable is for publishing its consultation on a new British industrial competitiveness scheme.

67882 • Industry: Electricity

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce industrial electricity prices.

67883 • Energy Intensive Industries: Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of energy costs on energy intensive industries.

68767 • Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to p.12 of The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy 2025 published on 23 June 2025, on what evidential basis his Department determined which business sectors have high potential.