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1125041

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2019
	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	Electrical Engineering: Research
	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 funding has been allocated to research and development in the field of power electronics throughout the UK in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
	tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
	uin	251389
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Our ambition is to raise total R&amp;D investment to 2.4% of GDP by 2027, the biggest ever increase, and 3% in the longer-term.   Research and development into power electronics is funded by UK Research and Innovation primarily through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Innovate UK. These councils have currently allocated £36.1m to active grants in power electronics. Of this, £35.2m is allocated to establishments in England; £0.6m in Scotland and; £0.3m in Wales. This includes grant funding to individual projects, a recently funded future electrical machines manufacturing hub at the University of Sheffield and a Centre for Doctoral Training in power electronics for sustainable propulsion at Newcastle University. The Centre will support the best and brightest PhD students from across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 251390 question first answered 15/05/2019 12:45:22 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

1125042

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2019
	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	Electrical Engineering: Research
	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 funding has been allocated to power electronics research and development at establishments in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
	tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
	uin	251390
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Our ambition is to raise total R&amp;D investment to 2.4% of GDP by 2027, the biggest ever increase, and 3% in the longer-term.   Research and development into power electronics is funded by UK Research and Innovation primarily through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Innovate UK. These councils have currently allocated £36.1m to active grants in power electronics. Of this, £35.2m is allocated to establishments in England; £0.6m in Scotland and; £0.3m in Wales. This includes grant funding to individual projects, a recently funded future electrical machines manufacturing hub at the University of Sheffield and a Centre for Doctoral Training in power electronics for sustainable propulsion at Newcastle University. The Centre will support the best and brightest PhD students from across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 251389 question first answered 15/05/2019 12:45:23 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

843731

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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	Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to review the cost and supply of wood pellets in relation to Renewable Heat Incentive tariffs.
	tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
	tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
	uin	128130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>We do not currently plan to review biomass tariffs on the Renewable Heat Incentive. Compensation for running cost differences is only one part of RHI tariffs when compared with the compensation for high up-front costs of renewable systems.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/02/2018 17:09:47 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

843732

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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	Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the news release Wood Pellet Shortages, published by UK Pellet Council on 18 January 2018, whether his Department plans to adjust the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) tariff for biomass boilers installed under the RHI scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
	tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
	uin	128133
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>We do not currently plan to review biomass tariffs on the Renewable Heat Incentive. Compensation for running cost differences is a part of RHI tariffs when compared with the compensation for high up-front costs of renewable systems.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/02/2018 17:08:25 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara