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627483

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date	02/11/2016
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	Innovation
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 is taking to promote innovation in (a) south east England and (b) nationally.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	51661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2016 answer text <p>Innovate UK has invested around £1.8 billion in innovation; supporting 7,600 UK businesses and creating around 55,000 new jobs. We are supporting more companies to innovate through R&amp;D Tax Credits; with claims rising to £2.45bn in 2014-15.</p><p>In London and South East England, the Cell and Gene Therapy; Future Cities; and the Digital Catapults have been established to commercialise new and emerging technologies where there are large global market opportunities. And companies are already benefitting from our support. For example; Dearman, based in Croydon, won an inspirational SME innovation award recently for its clean cold and power technologies.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 09/11/2016 15:37:36 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

627487

registered interest
date	02/11/2016
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: Agency Workers
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 agency workers in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	51613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2016 answer text <p>The expenditure on agency workers is included in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p>The former Department of Energy and Climate Change’s annual spend on temporary staff (including Non-Departmental Public Bodies and Executive Agency) is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Spend on temporary staff £’000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>5,434</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>6,847</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>10,171</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>9,839</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>11,706</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The former Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ annual spend on temporary staff (including Executive Agency and Non-Departmental Public Bodies) is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Spend on temporary staff £’000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>67,350</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>85,337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>87,846</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>70,711</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>57,397</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The expenditure on agency workers is included in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts under ‘other staff costs’ which is the basis for this answer. Please be aware that the costs may include payments to non-executive board members.</p><p>Total annual spend on temporary staff for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is therefore:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Spend on temporary staff £’000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>72,784</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>92,184</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>98,017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>80,550</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>69,103</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 09/11/2016 15:39:22 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

627504

registered interest
date	02/11/2016
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	Carbon Monoxide: Alarms
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 his Department will introduce a ban on the import of carbon monoxide alarms which do not comply with the BS EN 50291 safety standard after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	51659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy currently has no plans to introduce a ban on the import of carbon monoxide alarms that do not comply with the BS EN 50291 safety standard when the UK leaves the EU. However, we continue to consider what measures are likely to be most effective in ensuring protection against carbon monoxide poisoning.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 09/11/2016 15:38:11 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

626143

registered interest
date	31/10/2016
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	Electricity Generation
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 gigawatt capacity of gas or diesel reciprocating engines won 15-year contracts in the first two T4 Capacity Market auctions.
tabling member constituency	Wells
tabling member printed	James Heappey
uin	51206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2016 answer text <p>Around 0.7GW and 0.9GW of reciprocating engines won 15-year agreements in the four-year ahead Capacity Market auctions in 2014 and 2015 respectively.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/11/2016 15:36:49 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey