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1488221

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2022
	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: Advertising
	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 much their Department has spent on advertising in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	34808
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department’s advertising spend is published in BEIS Annual Reporting Accounts within ‘Advertising and publicity’ costs and can be found in table 4.1 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Spend relating to financial year 2021-22 will be published later this year. BEIS Annual Report &amp; Accounts are laid in Parliament once they have been certified by the Comptroller &amp; Auditor General (C&amp;AG).</p><p> </p><p>All advertising costs with details of the provider are published on gov.uk <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/beis-spending-over-25000" target="_blank">here</a>. Further transactions will be published during 2022.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 20/07/2022 17:00:29 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1487822

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2022
	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: Consultants
	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 much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	33692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department’s consultancy spend is published in BEIS Annual Reporting Accounts within ‘Legal, professional and consultancy’ costs and can be found in table 4.1 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">here</a>. A more detailed breakdown of consultancy costs can be found in the Accountability Report on page 82.</p><p> </p><p>Spend relating to financial year 2021-22 will be published later this year. BEIS Annual Report &amp; Accounts are laid in Parliament once they have been certified by the Comptroller &amp; Auditor General (C&amp;AG).</p><p> </p><p>All consultancy costs with details of the provider are published on gov.uk <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/beis-spending-over-25000" target="_blank">here</a>. Further transactions will be published during 2022.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 18/07/2022 08:20:32 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486908

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2022
	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: Legal 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, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	31724
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy does not hold centrally the breakdown between advice on legal disputes and other forms of advice and this can only be obtained disproportionally.</p><p> </p><p>Legal, professional and consultancy costs are included within note 4.1 of the BEIS Annual Report and Consolidated Accounts <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 14/07/2022 16:12:32 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486553

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2022
	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: Contracts
	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 the total value has been of contracts held by their Department with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	31003
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>The total value of contracts held by BEIS with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020 is detailed in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023 (committed)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Capita</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,176,448</p></td><td><p>£1,662,948</p></td><td><p>£1,606,198</p></td><td><p>£264,050</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Serco</strong></p></td><td><p>£3,525,500</p></td><td><p>£2,510,000</p></td><td><p>£1,986,131</p></td><td><p>£6,786</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>G4S</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£4,308</p></td><td><p>£26,880</p></td><td><p>£26,880</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,701,948</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,177,256</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£3,619,209</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£297,715</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 13/07/2022 09:00:39 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486081

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2022
	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: Contracts
	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 contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	29879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 14/07/2022 11:01:42 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1485120

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2022
	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: Pay
	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 the wage ratio was between the highest paid member of staff in his Department and the lowest in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	28385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The information required to calculate the Annual wage ratio is not held centrally and can only be obtained disproportionally. However, financial year data is held centrally. The table below shows Department’s wage ratio in financial years 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Between the highest paid member of staff and the lowest</p></td><td><p>Pay Ratio</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) 2019/20</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) 2020/21</p></td><td><p>9.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) 2021/22</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 14/07/2022 11:26:34 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1484750

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2022
	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: Official Hospitality
	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 much his Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	27519
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>Annual spend on hospitality is not held centrally and can only be obtained disproportionally. However, the table below shows Department’s hospitality spend in financial years 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Category (</strong>£)</p></td><td><p>(a) 2019/20</p></td><td><p>(b) 2020/21</p></td><td><p>(c) 2021/22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hospitality</p></td><td><p>54,816</p></td><td><p>4,182</p></td><td><p>21,303</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 14/07/2022 11:27:33 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1441464

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2022
	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 recent estimate he has made of the costs of electricity and gas transmission and distribution networks to consumers.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	140370
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2022 answer text <p>Data from the independent Great Britain energy regulator, Ofgem, show that the average estimated network costs per domestic customer per year in March 2021 were: gas distribution - £121; electricity distribution - £93; electricity transmission - £35; gas transmission - £10. This data is published at <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ofgem.gov.uk%2Fenergy-data-and-research%2Fdata-portal%2Fall-available-charts%3Fsort%3Dcreated%26page%3D2&amp;data=04%7C01%7CIan.Lomas%40beis.gov.uk%7Ccf7933847c1c42d86c4208da0775b30f%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637830499329528062%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=RLGtzJiEH7b0B%2BQ2ML%2B3HBehCbMAg4EUbUGsdrJnuz8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/energy-data-and-research/data-portal/all-available-charts?sort=created&amp;page=2</a> (chart: ‘estimated network costs per domestic customer’).</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 18/03/2022 15:09:32 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1441467

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2022
	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: Investment Income
	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 report entitled Profiting amid the energy crisis: the distribution networks at the heart of the UK's gas and electricity system, published on 14 March 2022, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the report's findings on the level of dividends paid by electricity distribution and gas distribution network operators to shareholders since 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	140371
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2022 answer text <p>Network regulation is a matter for Ofgem as the energy regulator. While dividends are a matter for the individual companies and are a normal part of returns to equity capital providers, the return on capital network companies can earn is regulated by Ofgem.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem uses the RIIO price control to establish a regulatory framework which allows network companies to attract the investment they need to ensure a safe, secure and reliable supply of energy while saving consumers money by keeping returns as low as possible. In the most recent price control for gas distribution and electricity transmission RIIO-2, Ofgem has reduced the allowed return on capital to save consumers £2.3 billion over the five-year price control period. Ofgem will propose a similar reduction in allowed returns in the forthcoming electricity distribution price control.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 140372 question first answered 23/03/2022 17:03:00 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1441468

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2022
	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: Profitability
	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 report entitled Profiting amid the energy crisis: the distribution networks at the heart of the UK's gas and electricity system, published on 14 March 2022, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the report's findings on the profitability of electricity and gas distribution industries in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	140372
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2022 answer text <p>Network regulation is a matter for Ofgem as the energy regulator. While dividends are a matter for the individual companies and are a normal part of returns to equity capital providers, the return on capital network companies can earn is regulated by Ofgem.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem uses the RIIO price control to establish a regulatory framework which allows network companies to attract the investment they need to ensure a safe, secure and reliable supply of energy while saving consumers money by keeping returns as low as possible. In the most recent price control for gas distribution and electricity transmission RIIO-2, Ofgem has reduced the allowed return on capital to save consumers £2.3 billion over the five-year price control period. Ofgem will propose a similar reduction in allowed returns in the forthcoming electricity distribution price control.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 140371 question first answered 23/03/2022 17:03:00 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett