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1131226

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Tidal 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 recent progress his Department has made on the development of tidal energy.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	263200
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State made a statement to the House on Monday 25 June 2018 setting out our position on the support for the proposed Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project. The Department’s analysis of the project and the proposed follow-on programme of lagoons was that it did not represent value for money. This remains the Department’s position.</p><p> </p><p>In February, the Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth met the rt. hon. member for Orkney and Shetland, along with a cross-party delegation of Members of Parliament and representatives of the sector, to discuss the potential for alternative methods of funding early tidal stream and wave energy deployment.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 17/06/2019 12:30:30 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1131234

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Tidal Power: Swansea Bay
	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 review the decision on funding for the Swansea Tidal Lagoon project.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	263201
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State made a statement to the House on Monday 25 June 2018 setting out our position on the support for the proposed Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project. The Department’s analysis of the project and the proposed follow-on programme of lagoons was that it did not represent value for money. This remains the Department’s position.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has said it is open to considering well developed, privately developed tidal range projects. However they must be able to demonstrate credibly that they would represent value for money.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 17/06/2019 12:30:37 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1131411

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Climate Change
	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 his Department has taken in response to the motion agreed by the House of Commons on 1 May 2019 declaring a climate emergency.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	263254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government fully recognises the urgency of acting on climate change.</p><p> </p><p>I am pleased to confirm that on 12th June, the Government laid draft legislation to set a new net zero greenhouse gas emissions target for the UK, to be delivered by 2050. This world-leading target will bring to an end our contribution to climate change. We already have a strong foundation of action and leadership to build from, having cut our emissions by 42% since 1990 while growing the economy by 72%. And we are providing at least £5.8bn of international climate finance between 2016 and 2020 to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change, reduce deforestation and pursue clean economic growth.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 17/06/2019 10:03:19 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1130972

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2019
	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	Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage
	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 steps the Government has taken to promote carbon capture, utilisation and storage technologies.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	262267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government believes that carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) has the potential to play an important role in meeting the UK’s climate targets. CCUS can add value to the economy and help tackle hard to decarbonise sectors.</p><p>The Government published its CCUS Action Plan in November 2018, designed to progress CCUS in the UK, including enabling the UK’s first CCUS facility to be operational from the mid-2020s. The Government is investing over £50 million in CCUS innovation support between 2017 and March 2021.</p><p>CCUS is also likely to play an important role in achieving our Industrial Clusters Mission, creating the world’s first net-zero industrial cluster by 2040. This is supported by up to £170 million from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund to support the deployment of low carbon technologies and enabling infrastructure in one or more clusters. In addition, through our Industrial Energy Transformation Fund we are investing £315 million to support businesses with high energy use to cut their bills and emissions through increased energy efficiency and transition to a low carbon future through the use of lower carbon energy and processes. This may support CCUS projects.</p><p>In March this year, the Government launched the CCUS Advisory Group. Backed by government and industry support, the Group will provide advice on the potential incentives and regulations needed for the development of a new UK market in CCUS.</p><p>The Government is also working with other governments to promote the development of CCUS internationally. We hosted, with the International Energy Agency, the Global CCUS Summit in Edinburgh last November which brought together world energy leaders from governments and industry to accelerate the global progress of CCUS and co-lead the CCUS initiatives under both Mission Innovation and the Clean Energy Ministerial.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 13/06/2019 16:36:08 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1130997

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Post-18 Education and Funding Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will publish the analysis of graduates that will be net beneficiaries from the proposed changes under the post-18 education and funding review by income decile.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	262443
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The independent panel report to the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding was published on 30 May 2019. The panel published a number of analytical annexes with their report, including the estimated impacts of some of their recommendations. The report and annexes can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/post-18-review-of-education-and-funding-independent-panel-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/post-18-review-of-education-and-funding-independent-panel-report</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The government has not yet taken decisions with regards to the recommendations put forward by the independent panel. The government will consider the panel’s recommendations carefully and will conclude the review at the Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 13/06/2019 16:38:13 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1131010

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2019
	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	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, what his Department's timeframe is for the publication of the energy white paper.
	tabling member constituency	Fylde
	tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
	uin	262348
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has stated his intention to publish the energy white paper in the summer. We will provide more details in due course.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 13/06/2019 16:39:13 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

1131066

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Students: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will change the measure of disadvantage used in the Student Premium to capture individual-level socio-economic disadvantage as recommended in the May 2019 Post-18 education and funding review: independent panel report.
	tabling member constituency	City of Durham
	tabling member printed	Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods
	uin	262303
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The government will consider the Post-18 Education and Funding Review recommendations carefully and will conclude the review at the Spending Review. The government has not yet taken decisions with regards to the recommendations put forward. Access and successful participation remain a priority for this government and is enshrined in the Higher Education (HE) and Research Act (2017). Everyone with the ability to succeed in HE should have the opportunity, regardless of their background or where they grew up.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 13/06/2019 16:54:02 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1501 label Biography information for Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods

1131082

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2019
	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	Postgraduate Education
	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 discussions has he had with (a) university groups and (b) UK Research and Innovation on the sustainability of current funding for PHD qualifications.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	262245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>I regularly meet with universities, university groups and UKRI to discuss a number of issues. The government’s target to reach a total of 2.4% of GDP invested in R&amp;D by 2027 will mean increasing the numbers of highly trained people working in research and innovation, including PhD graduates. In 2017/18, UKRI’s direct funding was supporting around 22,000 studentships, about 22% of the UK total. In addition, Research England’s QR Research Degree Programme (RDP) supervision fund provides more than £250 million of annual funding contributing to the costs that universities face in supervising research degree programmes.</p><p> </p><p>In many cases, this investment is also made in partnership, leveraging further support from higher education institutions and industry to maximise the impact from the public investment. For example, in 2019, UKRI invested £100m in 16 new Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) in Artificial Intelligence, based at 14 UK universities with 300 partners. Project partners are investing £78 million in cash or in-kind contributions and partner universities are committing a further £23 million, resulting in an overall investment of more than £200 million.</p><p> </p><p>Given the large commitments partner universities make to these investments, we are mindful of the need to maintain sustainability. UKRI is currently developing a plan for the delivery of the government’s 2.4% target with stakeholders to ensure that we not only achieve these ambitious targets but do so in a manner that is sustainable and ensure long-term impact.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 13/06/2019 16:37:27 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

1130543

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	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	Renewable Energy: Expenditure
	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 funding his Department has made available for renewable energy generation in each nation and region in the UK in each of the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	261115
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not collect regional funding data. However, the Government has spent a total of £30.7 billion in renewable electricity technologies since 2010. The table below shows how much was invested in each year, through the Renewable Obligation (RO), Feed in Tariff (FITS) and Contracts for Difference (CfD) schemes:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Cost (£m)</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Total over period</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RO</p></td><td><p>1,285</p></td><td><p>1,458</p></td><td><p>1,991</p></td><td><p>2,599</p></td><td><p>3,114</p></td><td><p>3,743</p></td><td><p>4,511</p></td><td><p>5,371</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FiTs</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>506</p></td><td><p>691</p></td><td><p>866</p></td><td><p>1,110</p></td><td><p>1,284</p></td><td><p>1,375</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CfDs</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>92</p></td><td><p>544</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CfD (admin)</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1,300</p></td><td><p>1,608</p></td><td><p>2,498</p></td><td><p>3,290</p></td><td><p>3,980</p></td><td><p>4,853</p></td><td><p>5,898</p></td><td><p>7,304</p></td><td><p>30,731</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Renewables spending covered under the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme is published monthly and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rhi-mechanism-for-budget-management-estimated-commitments" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rhi-mechanism-for-budget-management-estimated-commitments</a>.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 13/06/2019 16:48:01 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 122111 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1129398

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	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 his Department's time frame is for the allocation of funding to (a) UK Research and Innovation, (b) the research councils and (c) Research England for 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	259212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>We are increasing spending on R&amp;D by £7 billion over 5 years by 2021-22. This will be the largest increase ever.</p><p> </p><p>The allocation of research and innovation funding for 2017-2021 was published in August 2018 and can be found online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-and-innovation-funding-allocation-2017-to-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-and-innovation-funding-allocation-2017-to-2021</a>.</p><p>UKRI and its councils published their Delivery Plans on 10 June as part of their UKRI 2019 event (<a href="http://www.UKRI.org/deliveryplans" target="_blank">www.UKRI.org/deliveryplans</a>). These plans include the information about allocations for 2019-20, with a total UKRI annual budget of £7.5billion.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 259213 259214 question first answered 17/06/2019 10:27:03 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah