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1055108

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Wind Power
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 the growth of wind power is responsibly managed and taxpayer funded constraint payments to that sector are reduced.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	217048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The taxpayer does not fund constraint payments. These payments are made by National Grid Electricity System Operator through competitive market arrangements as part of ensuring the secure and efficient operation of the electricity system. These arrangements predate the connection of wind farms to the transmission network by many years, and payments are made to various types of generation.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/02/2019 12:17:54 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

1055296

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether proposals for projects using Official Development Assistance funds are evaluated by civil servants within his Department.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	217105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>All BEIS projects funded through Official Development Assistance (ODA) are appraised by BEIS officials to assess quality, value for money, deliverability and alignment with Official Development Assistance (ODA) rules and strategic priorities. Projects funded from BEIS International Climate Finance (ICF) are appraised through detailed business cases, which go through BEIS approval processes that provide scrutiny and challenge before final sign-off at Ministerial level.</p><p>For the two research and innovation funds, Newton Fund and the Global Challenges Research Fund, in line with the Haldane Principle which protects the independence of government-funded research, all research programmes are also evaluated by external expert groups with strong assurance processes and robust independent expert peer review processes.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 08/02/2019 12:54:34 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1055298

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department's Official Development Assistance-funded projects are evaluated by civil servants in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	217106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>All BEIS projects funded through Official Development Assistance (ODA) are monitored and reported upon in line with DFID good practice. In addition, we ensure independent evaluations of all our major programmes. At the fund level, BEIS funds are also subject to scrutiny from the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) that reviews our ODA spending and its development impact.</p><p>BEIS research and innovation (R&amp;I) ODA funds are administered by our expert delivery partners. These have strong monitoring and evaluation processes built into their delivery models.</p><p>BEIS International Climate Finance (ICF) publishes annual reviews of progress on implementation, financial reporting and value for money.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 08/02/2019 12:55:33 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1051411

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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	Research: Finance
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 comparative assessment he has made of trends in the level of spending on research and development in the (a) UK and (b) EU member states.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	214535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is increasing public R&amp;D spending by £7 billion by 2022, this is the largest increase on record.</p><p>The department regularly assesses comparative levels of R&amp;D expenditure in the UK and EU member states.</p><p>The latest ONS data estimates that overall gross R&amp;D expenditure in the UK was £33.1bn in 2016, which was 1.7% of GDP in that year. The latest OECD international comparison of R&amp;D expenditure ranked the UK 10<sup>th</sup> among EU member states, with overall gross R&amp;D expenditure in the EU28 estimated at 1.9% of GDP in 2016. More details can be found here <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Foe.cd%2Fmsti&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C6510a2f90baf44375ded08d68cf62dab%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636851388031421726&amp;sdata=UcM3BPVpEoXLweRwCTbDydMMK5cPS87%2F5a3lidlxGcw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">http://oe.cd/msti</a></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 08/02/2019 14:44:31 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1050553

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
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	Electrical Goods: Import Controls
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 assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Safety at Ports and Borders to prevent counterfeit electrical goods from entering the UK (a) currently and (b) after the UK has left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	214110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>This is done independently by National Trading Standards, and is publicly available here: <a href="https://www.nationaltradingstandards.uk/uploads/annual%20report%202017-18%20final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.nationaltradingstandards.uk/uploads/annual%20report%202017-18%20final.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 08/02/2019 14:31:45 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris