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90269

registered interest
date	02/09/2014
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	Biofuels: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information he holds on the proportion of wood pellets imported from North America that were derived from roundwood in the latest year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	207891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government does not hold any information on the proportion of imported wood pellets from North America from roundwood.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/09/2014 14:24:43 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 18987 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

90270

registered interest
date	02/09/2014
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	Biofuels: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information he holds on the level of wood pellet imports from (a) the USA and (b) Canada in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	207892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Data on the value and net mass of imports of wood pellets are published by HMRC in Overseas Trade Statistics. Data for the years 2011 to 2013 are shown in the following tables. Due to routine updating of the commodity codes by Eurostat, wood pellets were coded as ‘44013020 - Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in pellets’ in 2011 but then classified to the new code ‘44013100 – wood pellets’ in 2012 and 2013. For this analysis we have combined these two headings to provide a consistent series.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Wood pellet imports to the UK from the USA</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Value wood pellets imports (£s)</p></td><td><p>32,516,769</p></td><td><p>59,993,226</p></td><td><p>196,894,259</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Net mass of wood pellet imports (kg)</p></td><td><p>274,453,183</p></td><td><p>475,336,518</p></td><td><p>1,684,810,418</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Source: HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" rowspan="2"><p>Note: wood pellets were classified as 'HS 44013020 - Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in pellets' in 2011 and as 'HS 44013100 - Wood pellets' in 2012 and 2013</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Wood pellet imports to the UK from Canada</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Value wood pellets imports (£s)</p></td><td><p>77,712,194</p></td><td><p>108,073,728</p></td><td><p>168,603,061</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Net mass of wood pellet imports (kg)</p></td><td><p>591,780,847</p></td><td><p>854,602,676</p></td><td><p>1,355,464,003</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Source: HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" rowspan="2"><p>Note: wood pellets were classified as 'HS 44013020 - Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in pellets' in 2011 and as 'HS 44013100 - Wood pellets' in 2012 and 2013</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/09/2014 15:05:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 18990 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

76668

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
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	Brain: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the work of the Human Brain project; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	204685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The results of the initial phase of the Human Brain Project (HBP) will provide more detail on how it will address its objectives. The UK Research Councils, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) will hold discussions with UK researchers at that point to decide on any future involvement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK makes no current financial contribution to the HBP. However, the project includes the expertise of some key UK researchers and is making use of the hardware platform, SpiNNaker, which was previously developed with £2.7 million of support from the EPSRC.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts grouped question UIN 204686 question first answered 15/07/2014 12:15:32 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

76669

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
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	Brain: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the UK's financial contribution to the Human Brain project is in addition to the contribution of the EU Commission.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	204686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The results of the initial phase of the Human Brain Project (HBP) will provide more detail on how it will address its objectives. The UK Research Councils, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) will hold discussions with UK researchers at that point to decide on any future involvement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK makes no current financial contribution to the HBP. However, the project includes the expertise of some key UK researchers and is making use of the hardware platform, SpiNNaker, which was previously developed with £2.7 million of support from the EPSRC.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts grouped question UIN 204685 question first answered 15/07/2014 12:15:32 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

49594

registered interest
date	02/05/2014
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
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 levels of imports of wood for biomass combustion within the UK in the last three years for which figures are available; and from what countries that wood was imported.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	197674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>Data on the value of imports of fuel wood are published by HMRC in Overseas Trade Statistics. Data for the years 2011 to 2013 are shown in the following table for Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) 245.01 - Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms (excluding wood waste).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>UK</strong><strong> imports of fuel wood (SITC 245.01) by partner country, £s</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>(sorted by total value of fuel wood imports over the three years, high to low)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total (all countries)</p></td><td><p>2,164,613</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2,515,611</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>3,668,665</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Latvia</p></td><td><p>855,773</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>573,022</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1,508,111</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Netherlands</p></td><td><p>592,400</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>892,166</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>576,180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poland</p></td><td><p>208,031</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>200,393</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>771,578</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ukraine</p></td><td><p>72,122</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>117,802</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>201,861</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Indonesia</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>118,859</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>201,681</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Irish Republic</p></td><td><p>18,387</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>7,802</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>151,518</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ghana</p></td><td><p>52,855</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>49,662</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>47,408</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Germany</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>140,172</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>7,398</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Africa</p></td><td><p>108,207</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>9,337</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Estonia</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>112,771</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thailand</p></td><td><p>50,750</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>53,545</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>5,680</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United States</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>41,614</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>64,413</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Malaysia</p></td><td><p>18,455</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>42,920</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>40,101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sweden</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>62,245</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>10,451</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Australia</p></td><td><p>65,785</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Namibia</p></td><td><p>47,732</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6,528</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1,430</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hong Kong</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>46,680</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belarus</p></td><td><p>27,958</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Egypt</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>8,807</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>15,494</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lithuania</p></td><td><p>1,369</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2,144</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>20,669</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bosnia &amp; Herz.</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>20,053</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vietnam</p></td><td><p>13,877</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>3,946</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Canada</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>16,303</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Denmark</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>14,536</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>China</p></td><td><p>6,165</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6,251</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>610</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Honduras</p></td><td><p>12,853</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pakistan</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>4,409</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>4,915</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jamaica</p></td><td><p>8,318</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Guyana</p></td><td><p>3,524</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>India</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1,822</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UAE</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>459</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Source: HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer