Committees

COVID Investment Flexibility

European scrutiny

This is a pair of measures allowing unspent funds within the European Structural and Investment Funds to be repurposed in light of COVID-19. The first measure releases the funds (approximately £264 million for the UK) and creates a coordinating task force, while the second creates flexibility in how those funds can be spent.

We are writing to the Minister to find out how the Government intends to invest those funds, and to ask about the UK’s coordination with EU Member States in making those investment decisions.

Correspondence on this issue has now been closed.

•Proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013, Regulation (EU) No 1301/2013 and Regulation (EU) No 508/2014 as regards specific measures to mobilise investments in the health care systems of the Member States and in other sectors of their economies in response to the COVID-19 outbreak

•Explanatory Memorandum from the Government regarding the Proposal

•Proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 and Regulation (EU) No 1301/2013 as regards specific measures to provide exceptional flexibility for the use of the European Structural and Investments Funds in response to the COVID-19 outbreak

•Explanatory Memorandum from the Government regarding the Proposal

Reports, special reports and government responses

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Correspondence

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Letter from the chair of the European Union Committee to the Minister for Climate Change and Corporate Responsibility Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, dated 30 September 2020
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Letter from the Minister for Climate Change and Corporate Responsibility in the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy to the chair of the European Union Committee, dated 05 June 2020
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Letter from the chair of the European Union Committee to the Minister for Climate Change and Corporate Responsibility in the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, dated 21 May 2020
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Oral evidence transcripts

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Written evidence

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Other publications

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Contact us

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  • Address: EU Environment Sub-Committee, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW