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1020775

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date	07/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Australia: Military Alliances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the implications for the Royal Navy of the Joint Guidance for the RAN-RN Relationship signed by the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Royal Australian Navy on 28 November 2018; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
uin	200132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>The Joint Guidance, signed by the First Sea Lord and the Chief of the Royal Australian Navy, will increase dialogue and information sharing, particularly in the field of Anti-Submarine Warfare. This will promote interoperability and further our nations' shared values.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 13/12/2018 16:25:36 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

1020779

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2018 to Question 194629, what medals UK citizens who serve in OSCE missions are eligible to receive.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	200098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government supports recognition for UK civilians serving overseas, including via the OSCE Medal which is awarded annually to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the cause of security and cooperation in Europe. It is a civilian, not a military award.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 17/12/2018 16:15:59 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1020780

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Trade Unions: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has for (a) the Union Learning Fund and (b) other trade union workplace training programmes after the UK leave the EU.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	200152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>We will continue to provide support to Unionlearn and the Union Learning Fund for the remainder of the current financial year and for the next. The total funding for Unionlearn for the financial year of 2018/19 and for 2019/20 is £24 million. Funding for the financial year of 2020/21 onwards will be decided as part of the normal spending review process.</p><p>The Trades Union Congress will continue to have an important role as part of the National Retraining Partnership, alongside the Confederation of British Industry and Government. The Partnership sets the strategic direction of the National Retraining Scheme, an ambitious, far-reaching programme to drive adult retraining.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 17/12/2018 16:20:29 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1020781

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Electricity: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Cost of Energy Review published in October 2017, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the cost of electricity.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	200119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government has taken a range of actions to reduce the cost of energy – including protecting 11 million households from poor value energy tariffs through the introduction of a price cap, and providing a package of relief for energy intensive industries worth over £850 million since 2013, supplemented by the announcement of a £315 million Industrial Energy Transformation Scheme at the Budget.</p><p> </p><p>In his speech of 15th November (available on gov.uk), my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy set out his strategic approach to ensure consumers get a fair deal for their energy, while opening up the market to competition.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 200123 question first answered 17/12/2018 16:22:04 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1020782

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Business: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to page 160 of the Industrial Strategy, published in November 2017, what progress his Department has made on reducing electricity prices for businesses.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	200120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to minimising energy costs for businesses to ensure our economy remains strong and competitive. The ability for our industries to be able to compete across Europe and globally is a priority for this Government.</p><p>As set out in the recent energy speech by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Government recognises that industrial electricity prices are currently higher than those in some competitor economies. The principles set out in the speech are intended to deliver policies that will lower the costs of the electricity system permanently and further details will be set out in a White Paper next year.</p><p>At the same time as reducing the costs of electricity production, the Government wants to increase industrial energy efficiency. As announced in the Budget on 29 October 2018, £315 million is being provided for an Industrial Energy Transformation Fund to support industrial energy efficiency and decarbonisation projects to bring energy costs down for vital industries, including the steel sector. Furthermore, our Industrial Heat Recovery Support Programme is now open to applications for feasibility and/or preliminary engineering studies. We will publish our response to the consultation on widening eligibility for the exemption schemes for energy intensive industries in due course.</p><p>Meanwhile, we are continuing to reduce the cumulative impact of energy and climate change policies on industrial electricity prices for key energy intensive industries. This includes a package of relief for these industries worth over £850 million since 2013, of which £271m has been provided to the steel sector in compensation to the steel sector as of 30 November 2018.</p><p>We welcome the recent report by UK Steel regarding high electricity prices and will give its recommendations careful consideration.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 200121 200122 question first answered 17/12/2018 16:24:10 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1020783

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Industry: Electricity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans the Government has to close the gap between industrial electricity prices in the UK and those in France and Germany.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	200121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to minimising energy costs for businesses to ensure our economy remains strong and competitive. The ability for our industries to be able to compete across Europe and globally is a priority for this Government.</p><p>As set out in the recent energy speech by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Government recognises that industrial electricity prices are currently higher than those in some competitor economies. The principles set out in the speech are intended to deliver policies that will lower the costs of the electricity system permanently and further details will be set out in a White Paper next year.</p><p>At the same time as reducing the costs of electricity production, the Government wants to increase industrial energy efficiency. As announced in the Budget on 29 October 2018, £315 million is being provided for an Industrial Energy Transformation Fund to support industrial energy efficiency and decarbonisation projects to bring energy costs down for vital industries, including the steel sector. Furthermore, our Industrial Heat Recovery Support Programme is now open to applications for feasibility and/or preliminary engineering studies. We will publish our response to the consultation on widening eligibility for the exemption schemes for energy intensive industries in due course.</p><p>Meanwhile, we are continuing to reduce the cumulative impact of energy and climate change policies on industrial electricity prices for key energy intensive industries. This includes a package of relief for these industries worth over £850 million since 2013, of which £271m has been provided to the steel sector in compensation to the steel sector as of 30 November 2018.</p><p>We welcome the recent report by UK Steel regarding high electricity prices and will give its recommendations careful consideration.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 200120 200122 question first answered 17/12/2018 16:24:10 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1020784

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendations to close the gap between UK and EU industrial electricity prices for steel producers in the report, The energy price scandal, a fair power deal for UK steel, published by UK Steel in December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	200122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to minimising energy costs for businesses to ensure our economy remains strong and competitive. The ability for our industries to be able to compete across Europe and globally is a priority for this Government.</p><p>As set out in the recent energy speech by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Government recognises that industrial electricity prices are currently higher than those in some competitor economies. The principles set out in the speech are intended to deliver policies that will lower the costs of the electricity system permanently and further details will be set out in a White Paper next year.</p><p>At the same time as reducing the costs of electricity production, the Government wants to increase industrial energy efficiency. As announced in the Budget on 29 October 2018, £315 million is being provided for an Industrial Energy Transformation Fund to support industrial energy efficiency and decarbonisation projects to bring energy costs down for vital industries, including the steel sector. Furthermore, our Industrial Heat Recovery Support Programme is now open to applications for feasibility and/or preliminary engineering studies. We will publish our response to the consultation on widening eligibility for the exemption schemes for energy intensive industries in due course.</p><p>Meanwhile, we are continuing to reduce the cumulative impact of energy and climate change policies on industrial electricity prices for key energy intensive industries. This includes a package of relief for these industries worth over £850 million since 2013, of which £271m has been provided to the steel sector in compensation to the steel sector as of 30 November 2018.</p><p>We welcome the recent report by UK Steel regarding high electricity prices and will give its recommendations careful consideration.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 200120 200121 question first answered 17/12/2018 16:24:10 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1020785

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that the UK has the lowest energy prices in the EU.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	200123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government has taken a range of actions to reduce the cost of energy – including protecting 11 million households from poor value energy tariffs through the introduction of a price cap, and providing a package of relief for energy intensive industries worth over £850 million since 2013, supplemented by the announcement of a £315 million Industrial Energy Transformation Scheme at the Budget.</p><p> </p><p>In his speech of 15th November (available on gov.uk), my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy set out his strategic approach to ensure consumers get a fair deal for their energy, while opening up the market to competition.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 200119 question first answered 17/12/2018 16:22:04 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1020786

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to introduce a Steel Sector Deal.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	200124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to a strong steel industry. Last year we commissioned independent research which identified future domestic market opportunities for the UK steel sector worth an additional £3.8 billion per year by 2030. In our continuing sector deal discussions, we are actively encouraging the UK steel sector to come forward with their plans to exploit these opportunities and improve their competitiveness. In parallel we are also discussing with individual steel producers their investment plans for a sustainable future. We will continue to work closely with the sector, their supply chains, the trade unions, and the devolved administrations.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/12/2018 17:39:46 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1020787

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Carbon Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to reduce the rate of the UK carbon tax.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	200125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Carbon Price Support is a tax on fossil fuels used in power generation in Great Britain which provides a ‘top-up’ to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) to form the Total Carbon Price.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at Budget 2018, Carbon Price Support rates will be frozen at £18/tCO<sub>2</sub> in 2020-21. From 2021-22, the government will seek to lower CPS rates if the Total Carbon Price remains high.</p><p> </p><p>The government is committed to meeting its climate change commitments including reducing carbon emissions by at least 80% of 1990 levels by 2050, and meeting interim carbon budgets, whilst also ensuring the continued competitiveness of UK businesses. The tax system is an important part of this.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 17/12/2018 15:18:15 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin