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	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: North Sea
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) representatives of the duty holders of the Thistle oil platform on the evacuation of all workers from the Thistle oil platform to the Dunlin Alpha platform in the North Sea on 21 October 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	6368
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has not had any recent discussions on this matter. The Health and Safety Executive is currently investigating the reasons for the evacuation of the Thistle oil platform. While the investigation is on-going it would be inappropriate to comment further.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/11/2019 18:43:24 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1540656

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: North Sea
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2022 to Question 61899, if he will list the HSE’s Process Safety Leadership interventions since the start of that programme; and what the (a) outcome or (b) status is of each of those interventions.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	82285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2022 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has completed Process Safety Leadership interventions at CNR International (UK) Ltd and BW Catcher Offshore (UK) Ltd.</p><p>At CNR the intervention identified integrity management deficiencies at its installations for which an improvement notice was served. Other non-compliance issues were identified and have been confirmed in a letter to CNR and will be followed up.</p><p>At BW five non-compliance issues were identified and have been confirmed in writing to the duty holder and will be followed up.</p><p>A Process Safety Leadership intervention is currently in progress with Perenco UK Ltd. It has identified maintenance management deficiencies for which an improvement notice has been served, and other issues identified, which were confirmed in a letter to Perenco and will be followed up. The intervention will be completed when HSE’s team has met with Perenco’s leadership to learn of their plans to improve their performance in relation to the findings and the underlying causes.</p><p> </p><p>A Process Safety Leadership intervention has commenced at Shell, but its conclusions have not been finalised.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 17/11/2022 15:37:00 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1540657

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: North Sea
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2022 to Question 61899, which duty holders are represented on the Asset Integrity Task Group; and how many times that group has met to date in 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	82286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2022 answer text <p>In March 2021 Offshore Energy UK (OEUK) arranged a workshop involving representatives from North Sea operators, Suppliers, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to discuss the increasing trend of maintenance backlogs within the offshore sector. This became the Maintenance Backlog Working Group (MBWG). The terms of reference are given in Appendix B of OEUK’s published guidance “<a href="https://oeuk.org.uk/product/maintenance-backlog-measurement-interpretation-and-management-guideline-issue-01-march-2022/" target="_blank">OEUK’s Maintenance Backlog Measurement, Interpretation and Management Guideline</a>”. During the coronavirus pandemic it was determined that the MBWG should be the principal asset integrity focus, and it is now part of the Asset Integrity Task Group (AITG).</p><p> </p><p>The AITG has met twice in 2022 with another meeting planned for 30 November 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Duty holders represented on the AITG are BP, Petrofac, CNOOC, Repsol Sinopec, EnQuest, Serica, Equinor, SRCN Solutions Ltd, Harbour Energy, Shell, Ithaca, Spirit Energy, Neptune Energy, TAQA, ODE Asset Management, TotalEnergies, Perenco and Wood.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 82287 question first answered 17/11/2022 13:48:40 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1540658

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: North Sea
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2022 to Question 61899 on Offshore Industry: North Sea, if he will publish the terms of reference for the Asset Integrity Task Group.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	82287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2022 answer text <p>In March 2021 Offshore Energy UK (OEUK) arranged a workshop involving representatives from North Sea operators, Suppliers, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to discuss the increasing trend of maintenance backlogs within the offshore sector. This became the Maintenance Backlog Working Group (MBWG). The terms of reference are given in Appendix B of OEUK’s published guidance “<a href="https://oeuk.org.uk/product/maintenance-backlog-measurement-interpretation-and-management-guideline-issue-01-march-2022/" target="_blank">OEUK’s Maintenance Backlog Measurement, Interpretation and Management Guideline</a>”. During the coronavirus pandemic it was determined that the MBWG should be the principal asset integrity focus, and it is now part of the Asset Integrity Task Group (AITG).</p><p> </p><p>The AITG has met twice in 2022 with another meeting planned for 30 November 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Duty holders represented on the AITG are BP, Petrofac, CNOOC, Repsol Sinopec, EnQuest, Serica, Equinor, SRCN Solutions Ltd, Harbour Energy, Shell, Ithaca, Spirit Energy, Neptune Energy, TAQA, ODE Asset Management, TotalEnergies, Perenco and Wood.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 82286 question first answered 17/11/2022 13:48:40 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1585462

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2023
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: North Sea
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects to classify the twenty eight hydrocarbon releases reported on installations in the North Sea which were awaiting classification according to the Health and Safety Executive’s Quarterly Offshore Hydrocarbon Release Report published on 22 December 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	142683
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive expects all 28 hydrocarbon releases to be classified in the spring.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 20/02/2023 15:37:06 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1585464

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2023
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: North Sea
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the engineering contractors employed by the duty holder on each of the installations listed in the Health and Safety Executive’s Quarterly Offshore Hydrocarbon Release Report published on 22 December 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	142684
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive does not hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 20/02/2023 15:39:09 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1585465

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2023
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: North Sea
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the annual (a) budget and (b) staffing levels duty holders in the North Sea have allocated to backlogs of unmanaged Safety and Environment Critical Element maintenance and inspection work in each of the last five years to date.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	142685
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been proactively engaged with duty holders over the last five years to ensure that they have effective management of Safety and Environment Critical Element (SECE) maintenance and inspection backlogs.</p><p> </p><p>In 2022 HSE wrote to 43 duty holders operating 193 production installations requiring them to provide details of SECE maintenance backlogs and the action proposed by the duty holder to manage the backlog. It is for the duty holder to identify the risk and allocate a budget and staffing levels proportionate to the risk, therefore HSE does not hold any data on the budgets and staffing levels of duty holders.</p><p> </p><p>Where HSE interventions identify concerns with the duty holder’s arrangements, enforcement action is taken in line with HSE’s Enforcement Management Model.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 20/02/2023 15:41:26 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham