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1682937

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2024
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Tata Steel: Port Talbot
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the (a) membership and (b) remit is of the people, skills and business sub-group of the Tata Steel and Port Talbot Transition Board.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	10152
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p><strong>(a) </strong><strong>Membership</strong></p><p> </p><p>The People, Skills and Business sub-group membership will include a wide range of people including Tata Steel representatives, business leaders, officials in the UK Government and the Welsh Government, employees of Neath Port Talbot Council and community representatives, including a regional Member of the Senedd. Trade Union representatives will also be invited.</p><p> </p><p><strong>(b) </strong><strong>Remit</strong></p><p> </p><p>The People, Skills and Business sub-group is being established to provide immediate support for the people, businesses and communities directly affected by Tata Steel UK’s decarbonisation transition. The sub-group will operate beneath the Transition Board, to coordinate activity at a local level and report progress and challenges and make recommendations to the Transition Board.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 22/01/2024 14:13:41 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1682938

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2024
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Tata Steel: Port Talbot
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the (a) membership and (b) remit is of the place and regeneration sub-group of the Tata Steel and Port Talbot Transition Board.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	10153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p><strong>(a) </strong><strong>Membership </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Place and Regeneration sub-group membership will include a wide range of people including Tata Steel representatives, business leaders, employees of the UK Government and the Welsh Government, employees of Neath Port Talbot Council and community representatives, including a regional Member of the Senedd. Trade Union representatives will also be invited.</p><p> </p><p><strong>(b) </strong><strong>Remit </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Place and Regeneration sub-group will provide the Transition Board with advice on how to protect and grow the economic environment as a result of Tata Steel UK’s decarbonisation transition. They operate beneath the Transition Board, to coordinate activity at a local level and report progress and challenges and make recommendations to the Transition Board.</p><p> </p><p>The Place and Regeneration sub-group will develop a Local Economic Action Plan that will provide the Transition Board with advice on how to ensure regeneration and economic growth for the local area for the next decade.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 22/01/2024 14:13:12 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1682939

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2024
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Tata Steel: Port Talbot
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent estimate he has made of when the Tata Steel and Port Talbot Transition Board will receive recommendations on investment from the sub-groups.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	10154
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>The Tata Steel and Port Talbot Transition Board will start to receive recommendations on investments from the sub-groups after the formal consultation on the transition has begun. Decisions on investment will happen once the consultation has concluded and there is an understanding of what the impact of Tata Steel’s decarbonisation plans will be.</p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 22/01/2024 14:12:28 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1682940

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2024
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Tata Steel: Port Talbot
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether representatives from trade unions were invited to attend the two meetings of the Tata Steel and Port Talbot Transition Board.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	10155
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>I invited Community, Unite and GMB trade union representatives to both of the Tata Steel and Port Talbot Transition Board meetings that have taken place so far. There have been trade union representatives in attendance at both meetings.</p><p> </p><p>I also met with the trade unions outside of the Transition Board and will continue to engage interested parties from trade unions, business and the communities affected.</p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 22/01/2024 14:11:51 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1682941

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2024
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Tata Steel: Port Talbot
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether the Tata Steel and Port Talbot Transition Board has undertaken its review of the group’s terms of reference.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	10156
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>The Tata Steel / Port Talbot Transition Board reviewed and agreed the terms of reference at the inaugural Board meeting on Thursday 19 October 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The Tata Steel / Port Talbot Transition Board has been established to provide advice on how to protect and grow the economic environment and to support and mitigate the impact on those workers, businesses and communities directly affected by Tata Steel UK decarbonisation transition.</p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 22/01/2024 14:11:11 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

765321

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Welsh Government: Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much the Government has spent from the public purse on undertaking legal cases against the Government of Wales since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	105759
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The UK Government has spent £162,913 since 2011 relating to the referral of cases to the Supreme Court concerning the legislative competence of the National Assembly for Wales. No costs have been incurred since 2014.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 16/10/2017 15:46:23 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

769758

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2017
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Ports: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment his Department has made of the readiness of Welsh ports to facilitate any added procedural processes in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a withdrawal agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	107429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>Since the vote to leave the EU I, as well as a number of ministerial colleagues, have visited ports in Wales to discuss a number of issues, including their operational readiness for our leaving the European Union.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that withdrawal from the EU is a successful and smooth process for all parts of the UK, and we are conscious that a significant proportion of the traffic at some ports is not currently subject to customs controls. We want to ensure that traffic continues to flow freely at all UK ports and airports, including Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock, and we will seek to ensure that customs arrangements and mechanisms are as frictionless as possible, and that trade fluidity is maintained. Officials in the Wales Office and colleagues across Government are working with port operators and other stakeholders in Wales to support the smooth and orderly implementation of these new arrangements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 17/10/2017 09:04:30 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

770103

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2017
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	UK Trade with EU: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect on each sector of the Welsh economy of changes in the UK's participation in the single market over the next 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	107701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Exiting the European Union, working with officials across Government, is undertaking a wide range of analysis covering the entirety of the UK economy in order to support negotiations. We are looking at over 50 sectors as well as cross-cutting regulatory issues.</p><p> </p><p>As Parliament has agreed, we will not publish anything that would undermine our ability to negotiate the best deal for the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales will continue to work with other Government departments, and the Welsh Government, to support the Welsh economy and promote a prosperous Wales within a strong United Kingdom.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 18/10/2017 09:52:50 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

771613

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2017
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	EU Grants and Loans: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many meetings he has had with organisations and campaigners from Wales since June 2016 on European Structural Investment Funds after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	108026
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>My ministerial colleagues and I regularly meet with stakeholders across Wales, including discussing with representatives of business, the third sector and universities how funding for growth across the UK can best be designed and delivered after we leave the European Union. Since the referendum result in June 2016, the impact on Wales of the UK leaving the EU has been a standing agenda item.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 19/10/2017 13:06:34 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

771614

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2017
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Exports: Middle East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what proportion of total Welsh exports in (a) goods and (b) services went to the Middle East in 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	108060
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>In 2016, 8.5% of all goods exported from Wales went to the Middle East. Figures for service exports are not yet available for 2016. In 2015, 14.2% of all services exported from Wales went to Asia, which is where the Office for National Statistics (ONS) categorises Middle Eastern countries in its service exports release. The ONS does not publish data detailing what percentage of the service exports that are sent to Asia go specifically to the Middle East.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 23/10/2017 13:20:59 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens