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433721

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Private Sector: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department has taken to encourage (a) UK-owned and (b) UK-based private sector companies to invest in UK energy and manufacturing supply chains.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	18531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has worked jointly with Department of Energy &amp; Climate Change (DECC) and UKTI to encourage investment in UK energy supply chains, in both UK-owned and UK-based companies, and to achieve higher levels of UK content in energy infrastructure. We have worked constructively with project developers to enhance the opportunities for UK-based companies to win contracts and with top tier suppliers to encourage them to invest in the UK.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p>BIS continues to work with DECC and the Oil &amp; Gas Authority (OGA) to encourage investment in the UK Continental shelf (UKCS) and these arrangements include the formation of a Supply Chain Board to promote development of the oil and gas supply chain. Subsequent to the Oil &amp; Gas Skills Analysis Report we maintain a regular dialogue with Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organisation (OPITO), the oil and gas skills body, who advise on skills gaps.</p><br /><p>For large renewable energy projects, developers are required to have their Supply Chain Plans approved by Government, setting out how they will boost competition, innovation and skills, before they are eligible to apply for price support under the Contract for Difference regime. BIS has supported the GROW: Offshore Wind programme to help SMEs in England to compete in the offshore wind supply chain and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult to help companies bring new technologies to market.</p><br /><p>Open competition is important to bring down the costs of energy and, in open competition, UK bidders do not always win the contracts. We have made no specific assessment of the impact of UK contractors failing to win contracts on the UK economy, including the Scotland economy, and on the UK skills base.</p><br /><p>More widely, the Government is taking a number of steps to strengthen UK manufacturing supply chains and help these businesses compete in global markets.</p><br /><p>First and foremost, we are building a strong economy and a competitive business environment. We are backing manufacturers by cutting corporation tax, slashing red tape by a further £10billion and investing £6.9billion in the UK’s infrastructure. This is creating the right economic conditions to encourage the business investment crucial to UK manufacturing productivity growth and jobs.</p><br /><p>Through the sectors councils we are working closely with manufacturing companies to understand their needs and remove barriers in their path. The Government continues to invest in our world leading aerospace, automotive, defence and transport sectors and has reformed procurement rules so the supply chain can reap maximum benefit; whilst the High Value Manufacturing Catapult shows how companies can adapt to new technologies reduce their costs and boost productivity. One in six manufacturers have reshored production over the past three years and around one third of the 2,000 new Foreign Direct Investment projects landed in 2014/15 were in the areas of advanced manufacturing and life sciences. Business has the confidence to invest and make things in the UK again because the Government is getting the fundamentals of the economy right and creating a highly competitive, pro-business environment.</p><br /> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 18533 question first answered 07/12/2015 15:16:50 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

433722

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Offshoring
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the effect on the UK economy of UK supply chain contracts being awarded to overseas bidders.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	18533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has worked jointly with Department of Energy &amp; Climate Change (DECC) and UKTI to encourage investment in UK energy supply chains, in both UK-owned and UK-based companies, and to achieve higher levels of UK content in energy infrastructure. We have worked constructively with project developers to enhance the opportunities for UK-based companies to win contracts and with top tier suppliers to encourage them to invest in the UK.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p>BIS continues to work with DECC and the Oil &amp; Gas Authority (OGA) to encourage investment in the UK Continental shelf (UKCS) and these arrangements include the formation of a Supply Chain Board to promote development of the oil and gas supply chain. Subsequent to the Oil &amp; Gas Skills Analysis Report we maintain a regular dialogue with Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organisation (OPITO), the oil and gas skills body, who advise on skills gaps.</p><br /><p>For large renewable energy projects, developers are required to have their Supply Chain Plans approved by Government, setting out how they will boost competition, innovation and skills, before they are eligible to apply for price support under the Contract for Difference regime. BIS has supported the GROW: Offshore Wind programme to help SMEs in England to compete in the offshore wind supply chain and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult to help companies bring new technologies to market.</p><br /><p>Open competition is important to bring down the costs of energy and, in open competition, UK bidders do not always win the contracts. We have made no specific assessment of the impact of UK contractors failing to win contracts on the UK economy, including the Scotland economy, and on the UK skills base.</p><br /><p>More widely, the Government is taking a number of steps to strengthen UK manufacturing supply chains and help these businesses compete in global markets.</p><br /><p>First and foremost, we are building a strong economy and a competitive business environment. We are backing manufacturers by cutting corporation tax, slashing red tape by a further £10billion and investing £6.9billion in the UK’s infrastructure. This is creating the right economic conditions to encourage the business investment crucial to UK manufacturing productivity growth and jobs.</p><br /><p>Through the sectors councils we are working closely with manufacturing companies to understand their needs and remove barriers in their path. The Government continues to invest in our world leading aerospace, automotive, defence and transport sectors and has reformed procurement rules so the supply chain can reap maximum benefit; whilst the High Value Manufacturing Catapult shows how companies can adapt to new technologies reduce their costs and boost productivity. One in six manufacturers have reshored production over the past three years and around one third of the 2,000 new Foreign Direct Investment projects landed in 2014/15 were in the areas of advanced manufacturing and life sciences. Business has the confidence to invest and make things in the UK again because the Government is getting the fundamentals of the economy right and creating a highly competitive, pro-business environment.</p><br /> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 18531 question first answered 07/12/2015 15:16:50 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

433725

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Offshoring
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) effect to date and (b) potential future effect on the UK skills base of the outsourcing of UK manufacturing and energy supply chain contracts to other EU member states.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	18515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 7 December 2015 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-12-02/18533/" target="_blank">18533</a>.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 18518 question first answered 07/12/2015 16:10:35 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

433726

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Wind Power: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential economic effect on Scotland of Buchan Deep supply chain work being awarded to a company that will undertake the work overseas.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	18518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 7 December 2015 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-12-02/18533/" target="_blank">18533</a>.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 18515 question first answered 07/12/2015 16:10:36 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

433421

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Cleveland Potash: Redundancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will extend the support package for workers affected by the closure of Sahaviriya Steel Industries UK to people employed at Cleveland Potash.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	18310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>I refer the hon Member to the reply I gave on 30 November to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-11-13/16315/" target="_blank">16315</a> and in the debate in Westminster Hall on 2 December.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 07/12/2015 10:22:54 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

433423

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Royal Mail
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what provision the Government made in the conditions of the sale of Royal Mail for suitable local alternatives to be provided in the event that local sorting or collection offices were closed.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	18348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>Decisions on whether to close and re-locate local collection offices have always been operational matters for Royal Mail. The Government played no role in such decisions prior to the sale of Royal Mail.</p><p>Regardless of ownership, Royal Mail, as the United Kingdom’s designated universal service provider, is required to provide a universal postal service that meets the minimum requirements as set out under the Postal Services Act 2011.</p><p>It is the responsibility of the postal regulator, Ofcom, to ensure that Royal Mail provides sufficient access points to meet its universal postal service obligations.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 18349 question first answered 07/12/2015 11:43:34 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

433424

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Royal Mail
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the Government sought assurances from Royal Mail that local collection offices would not be closed after the sale of that company.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	18349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>Decisions on whether to close and re-locate local collection offices have always been operational matters for Royal Mail. The Government played no role in such decisions prior to the sale of Royal Mail.</p><p>Regardless of ownership, Royal Mail, as the United Kingdom’s designated universal service provider, is required to provide a universal postal service that meets the minimum requirements as set out under the Postal Services Act 2011.</p><p>It is the responsibility of the postal regulator, Ofcom, to ensure that Royal Mail provides sufficient access points to meet its universal postal service obligations.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 18348 question first answered 07/12/2015 11:43:34 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield