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652411

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
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	Erasmus+ Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2016 to Question 51507, what estimate he has made of the total cost of underwriting Erasmus plus bids that have been competitively funded after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	56195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>As bids are competitively awarded directly from the EU to private recipients, it is not possible to predict accurately how much funding UK bodies will be awarded in future years. In 2016 ten UK-led projects were approved, with an estimated total value of €13 million, and a typical duration of 3 years.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 08/12/2016 16:27:38 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

652417

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
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	Coastal Areas: Economic Growth
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 implications for his Department's policies of the recommendations of the New Economics Foundation's Blue New Deal Action Plan, published in November 2016; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	56130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>We welcome the Blue New Deal Action Plan from the New Economics Foundation as a useful contribution to the debate on coastal regeneration. The Government is actively supporting and encouraging coastal areas to diversify and transform their economies.</p><p>The Blue New Deal Action Plan outlines the importance of community involvement in coastal areas. In 2015 we provided £1.18 million to establish 118 Coastal Community Teams around the English coast to empower local communities to take control of their own areas’ regeneration and we will shortly be announcing more than 20 new Teams. The Teams ensure local partners (including the Council, community groups and businesses) work together under a local and nationally recognised structure, and agree their strategic direction and key economic priorities. All 118 Coastal Community Teams have submitted publically available Economic Plans detailing how they plan to drive forward future growth, jobs and prosperity. This placed based approach allows for public bodies to work directly with local communities to help resolve specific issues and barriers.</p><p>The Government is also supporting coastal areas to create jobs and investment. By 2017 the Coastal Communities Fund will have invested over £120 million in projects that are helping to create or safeguard over 18,000 jobs, provide more than 12,000 training places and apprenticeships, and attract over £200 million of public/ private sector co-finance. A further £90m is available between 2017 &amp; 2021 and is the first time Coastal Community Teams in England are able to bid to the Coastal Communities Fund ensuring that, wherever possible, projects have the support of the local community and meet wider economic objectives.</p><p>The Blue New Deal Action Plan suggests a national coastal brand for tourism. The Government continues to strongly encourage use of the Great British Coast logo which can be used by Coastal Community Teams to include all coastal initiatives including tourism. A number of Teams have been tailoring the logo to identify their local area within the overall coastal brand. The Blue New Deal Action Plan specifically identifies the need for an industrial strategy for the coast. This is an area we would be happy to discuss further with the New Economics Foundation.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/12/2016 16:29:01 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

652418

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
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	Local Enterprise Partnerships: Local Growth Deals
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 proportion of the funding from the Local Growth Fund will be allocated to Local Enterprise Partnerships in areas which (a) do and (b) do not have elected mayors.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	56153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>It is not possible at this time to answer the question. The Government is currently negotiating a further set of Growth Deals, funded through the Local Growth Fund, with individual Local Enterprise Partnerships and we will announce the awards in due course.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/12/2016 11:40:01 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

652421

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
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: Personnel Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people employed in human resources roles in his Department have (a) prior experience and (b) qualifications in human resources.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	56109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>Information on prior experience and qualifications is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/12/2016 16:29:50 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

650369

registered interest
date	02/12/2016
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: Meters
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 holds information on the number of households using foundation stage meters which have switched energy suppliers in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	56001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/12/2016 15:59:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

650370

registered interest
date	02/12/2016
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: Meters
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 progress his Department has made in improving the interoperability of early smart meters.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	56002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch, on 21 November 2016 to Question 53430:</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-11-16/53430/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-11-16/53430/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/12/2016 16:00:03 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

649417

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	Shell: North Sea
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 potential effect on employment in the North Sea oil and gas industry in Scotland of the scale of North Sea assets by Shell; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	55870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made. The Oil and Gas Authority will assess any licence transfer as the licence authority.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 06/12/2016 17:14:47 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

649454

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	Met Office: Scotland
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 he plans to devolve the Met Office functions for mountain weather forecasting to Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Dumfries and Galloway
tabling member printed	Richard Arkless
uin	55930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2016 answer text <p>The Met Office delivers a range of safety critical services to the whole of the United Kingdom through the Public Weather Service, including mountain forecasts. The Public Weather Service is overseen by the Public Weather Service Customer Group, which includes an independent chair and representatives from all of the devolved administrations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 07/12/2016 16:11:15 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4387 label Biography information for Richard Arkless

649561

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	Coal: Concessions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many miners whose employment with British Coal ended before they reached the age of 50 had their entitlement to concessionary coal reinstated after the introduction of the National Concessionary Fuel Scheme in 2013.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
uin	55940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>In reference to employees solely employed by British Coal, there are no employees aged under 50 who have been reinstated as part of the 2013 announcement, which related specifically to employees of UK Coal who lost their entitlement following a fire at the company’s Daw Mill colliery in February 2013.</p><p>There will be some UK Coal beneficiaries who TUPE transferred from British Coal to UK Coal in 1995 under the age of 50, who continued their entitlements with the new company and then fell under the terms of the 2013 announcement. However, Capita, who administer the concessionary fuel schemes, do not hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/12/2016 16:28:20 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman previous answer version 25004 answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

649563

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	Science: Research
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 guarantee levels of funding for UK scientific programmes in the event that no agreement is reached on continued UK participation in EU scientific programmes after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	55826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The UK will maintain its status as a global centre for research and innovation. The Government has already committed to protect science funding with a total investment of £26.3 billion over the period FY 2016/17 – FY 2020/21. In addition, the Autumn Statement announced an extra £2 billion a year in research and development by the end of this Parliament.</p><p>UK businesses and universities should continue to bid for competitive EU funds while we remain a member of the EU and we will work with the Commission to ensure payment when funds are awarded. The Treasury will underwrite the payment of such awards, even when specific projects continue beyond the UK’s departure from the EU.</p><p>Access to apply to Horizon 2020 and subsequent funding programmes after we leave the EU will be a matter for the negotiations that will follow the triggering of Article 50.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 06/12/2016 15:51:39 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis