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1124011

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	07/05/2019
	date	30/04/2019
	date tabled	30/04/2019
	ddp created	30/04/2019 17:17:59
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	30/04/2019 17:27:19 08/05/2019 15:32:04
	hansard heading	Retail Trade
	house id	1
	identifier	249204
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	08/05/2019 15:00:34
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to promote the retail industry through the Government's Industrial Strategy.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 249204
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	249204
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>At Autumn Budget 2018, my rt. hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the Future High Streets Fund, which aims to invest £675m in England to support local areas to develop and fund plans to make their high streets and town centres fit for the future. Autumn Budget also announced a cut in business rates by one third for the next two years for all retailers in England with a rateable value below £51,000, worth almost £1bn to retailers.</p><p> </p><p>The industry-led Retail Sector Council has agreed its priority work areas for the next two years, focusing on: costs to business, skills and lifelong learning, employment protections, the circular economy, consumer protections, and retail and the Industrial Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>A senior industry figure is leading each of these work groups and will bring proposals for action for both industry and government back to the Council for consideration. The Industrial Strategy workstream is led by Sir Charlie Mayfield, Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership and member of the Industrial Strategy Council, and will look at how the Industrial Strategy can work to the benefit of the retail sector.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of the Industrial Strategy, and following the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, the Government responded with the Good Work Plan, which will bring forward legislation to extend workers’ rights, including for people who work in the retail sector. This includes the introduction of new guidance to support the interpretation of holiday pay rules, as well as the biggest ever increase to the National Living Wage. An awareness campaign will be launched, targeted at both individuals and employers, to boost awareness and understanding to help ensure all workers are benefiting from their paid entitlement to leave. All these measures will improve the wages and working contracts of many of those working in the retail sector.</p>
	creator	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham
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	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1124002

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	07/05/2019
	date	30/04/2019
	date tabled	30/04/2019
	ddp created	30/04/2019 17:17:27
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	30/04/2019 17:26:49 09/05/2019 17:24:04
	hansard heading	Health: Research
	house id	1
	identifier	249283
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	09/05/2019 16:52:32
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and the Industrial Strategy, whether local health profiles influence the allocation of public investment in health research.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 249283
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	249283
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department for Health and Social Care funds health research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). NIHR funds ‘needs-led’ applied research – it aims to address issues that matter to the NHS and public health by identifying gaps in knowledge, and funding research that provides high-quality evidence to fill such gaps.</p><p> </p><p>In order to achieve this, NIHR undertakes activities to identify needs, working closely with users of research evidence – those responsible for establishing policy, commissioning services and delivering care.</p><p> </p><p>The NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme funds regionally derived applied research projects in health services and social care. The main purpose of the programme is to realise, through evidence, the huge potential for improving, expanding and strengthening the way that healthcare is delivered for patients, the public and the NHS through locally generated priorities.</p><p> </p><p>In deciding which projects to support, we take care to involve not only scientific reviewers and experienced researchers, but also practitioners and service users. We also appoint public members to our Regional Advisory Panels.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>UK Research and Innovation, a partner organisation of BEIS, funds medical research primarily through the Medical Research Council (MRC). MRC welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health and is committed to funding excellence. MRC recognises the value of information such as local health profiles for identifying future research areas, but there is the need to balance this against wider opportunities and allow for investigator-led proposals to inform our priorities too.</p>
	creator	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1123852

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	07/05/2019
	date	30/04/2019
	date tabled	30/04/2019
	ddp created	30/04/2019 17:10:20
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	30/04/2019 17:17:31 07/05/2019 16:36:07
	hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Smart Export Guarantee
	house id	1
	identifier	249355
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	07/05/2019 16:04:42
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the minimum export price level will be on the smart export guarantee scheme.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 249355
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	249355
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The consultation on a Smart Export Guarantee closed on 5 March 2019. We are currently analysing the responses we received and will publish a government response in due course.</p>
	creator	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1123857

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	07/05/2019
	date	30/04/2019
	date tabled	30/04/2019
	ddp created	30/04/2019 17:10:33
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	30/04/2019 17:17:51 07/05/2019 16:36:01
	hansard heading	Electricity Generation
	house id	1
	identifier	249358
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	07/05/2019 16:04:49
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has plans to abolish the embedded benefits regime for small generators below 100MW.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 249358
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	249358
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Network charging is a matter for Ofgem as the independent regulator, and decisions on any changes to charging arrangements are for it to make. Ofgem is considering the future of some embedded benefits, which relate to the charging arrangements for smaller generators connected to the electricity distribution system, as part of its ongoing Targeted Charging Review. The review is seeking to ensure that all parties connected to the electricity network make a fair contribution to its fixed costs. Ofgem has not yet concluded its review, and is currently considering responses received to a consultation held earlier this year on reform proposals.</p>
	creator	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1123926

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	07/05/2019
	date	30/04/2019
	date tabled	30/04/2019
	ddp created	30/04/2019 17:13:37
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	30/04/2019 17:21:20 07/05/2019 16:36:10
	hansard heading	Fuel Poverty
	house id	1
	identifier	249203
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	07/05/2019 16:04:21
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the 2018 Annual Report of the Committee on Fuel Poverty, what steps his Department is taking to respond to the recommendation for a new Clean Growth Fuel Poverty Challenge Fund.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 249203
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	249203
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>I am grateful of the advice from the Committee, which we are considering carefully as part of our plan to update the Fuel Poverty Strategy later in 2019.</p>
	creator	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1123935

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	07/05/2019
	date	30/04/2019
	date tabled	30/04/2019
	ddp created	30/04/2019 17:14:00
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	30/04/2019 17:21:41 07/05/2019 16:35:02
	hansard heading	Carbon Emissions
	house id	1
	identifier	249176
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	07/05/2019 16:03:53
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to address the projection in his Department’s Updated Energy and Emissions Projections 2018, published 11 April 2019, that the UK will miss its carbon targets for 2023 to 2027 by 5.6% and for 2028 to 2032 by 9.6%; and if he will make a statement.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 249176
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	249176
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Carbon budgets four and five end in 8 and 13 years respectively and we are already over 90% of the way towards meeting them from a 1990 baseline, even before many of the policies and proposals in the Clean Growth Strategy are taken into account.</p><p>The Strategy sets out our plans to build on our progress in decarbonising the power sector, while looking further across the whole of the economy and the country. It includes ambitious proposals on housing, business, transport, the natural environment and green finance.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy</a></p>
	creator	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1124309

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	07/05/2019
	date	01/05/2019
	date tabled	01/05/2019
	ddp created	01/05/2019 18:16:42
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	01/05/2019 18:31:57 13/05/2019 14:01:03
	hansard heading	Fracking: Earthquakes
	house id	1
	identifier	250015
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	13/05/2019 13:29:45
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on how many occasions the Government guidelines on earth tremors have been breached by fracking operations in each of the last three years.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	East Antrim
	tabling member printed	Sammy Wilson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 250015
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	250015
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Traffic Light System for monitoring induced seismicity was introduced after consideration of advice from three scientists, following operations at Cuadrilla’s Preese Hall site in 2011. The level of magnitude 0.5 at which operators must pause operations, was set in consultation with industry as an appropriate precautionary measure. These regulations have been working as intended and there are no plans to review the traffic light system.</p><p> </p><p>Three seismic events, equal or greater than magnitude 0.5, were recorded during pumping operations at Preston New Road between October and December 2018. Following these red traffic light events the operator temporarily paused operations, reduced pressure and monitored for any further seismic events.</p>
	creator	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson

1124311

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	07/05/2019
	date	01/05/2019
	date tabled	01/05/2019
	ddp created	01/05/2019 18:16:46
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	01/05/2019 18:32:02 13/05/2019 14:01:02
	hansard heading	Fracking: Earthquakes
	house id	1
	identifier	250017
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	13/05/2019 13:29:55
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans the Government has to review the guidelines on earth tremors caused by fracking operations.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	East Antrim
	tabling member printed	Sammy Wilson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 250017
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	250017
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member the answer I gave the hon. Member for Lewisham East on 1 May 2019 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-04-24/247160/" target="_blank">247160</a>.</p>
	creator	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson

1124313

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	07/05/2019
	date	01/05/2019
	date tabled	01/05/2019
	ddp created	01/05/2019 18:16:51
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	01/05/2019 18:32:06 13/05/2019 14:02:05
	hansard heading	Fracking: Earthquakes
	house id	1
	identifier	250018
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	13/05/2019 13:30:06
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what representations his Department has received from (a) fracking companies, (b) environmental groups and (c) the shale gas commissioner on the appropriateness of current guidelines on tremors caused by fracking.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	East Antrim
	tabling member printed	Sammy Wilson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 250018
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	250018
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department routinely receives correspondence from a wide range of stakeholders in relation to the regulatory regime for shale gas extraction, including the traffic light system.</p><p> </p><p>The Traffic Light System for monitoring induced seismicity was introduced after consideration of advice from scientists, following operations at Cuadrilla’s Preese Hall site in 2011. The level of magnitude 0.5 at which operators must pause operations, was set in consultation with industry as an appropriate precautionary measure. These regulations have been working as intended and there are no plans to review the traffic light system.</p>
	creator	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson

1124314

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	07/05/2019
	date	01/05/2019
	date tabled	01/05/2019
	ddp created	01/05/2019 18:16:53
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	01/05/2019 18:32:08 08/05/2019 15:32:01
	hansard heading	Drax Power Station: Biofuels
	house id	1
	identifier	250019
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	08/05/2019 15:00:51
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what sums have been paid in subsidy in each of the last five years to Drax power station for burning wood pellets.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	East Antrim
	tabling member printed	Sammy Wilson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 250019
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	250019
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Over the last five years, Drax’s renewable electricity generation from the co-firing of biomass and the conversion of coal-fired units to 100% biomass has been supported under the Renewables Obligation (RO) scheme. From 21 December 2016, Drax’s 3rd Conversion Unit (Unit 1) has received support under the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme. Units 2, 3 and 4 remain under the RO.</p><p> </p><p>Information is not available on support under the RO specifically for burning wood pellets. Therefore, the figures in the table below give the value of support for all of Drax’s renewable electricity generation under the scheme, to the nearest million pounds.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </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></tr><tr><td><p>Renewables Obligation[1]</p></td><td><p>£181m</p></td><td><p>£399m</p></td><td><p>£548m</p></td><td><p>£548m</p></td><td><p>£399m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Payments to individual projects are not reported separately under the CfD scheme. The total value of payments to all the CfD supported projects is available in the annual reports from the Low Carbon Contracts Company, the CfD scheme administrator, at: <a href="https://www.lowcarboncontracts.uk/publications?f%5B0%5D=field_publications_category%3A29" target="_blank">https://www.lowcarboncontracts.uk/publications?f%5B0%5D=field_publications_category%3A29</a></p><p>[1] The Renewables Obligation figures are the notional value of support, based on Ofgem’s certificate report as at 01/05/2019 from their Renewables and CHP Register.</p>
	creator	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson
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	tabling member	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson