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720925

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
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 his Department's policy is on (a) maintaining and (b) increasing financial support for the offshore wind sector in the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	70665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government announced £730m of support for offshore wind and other less established renewable electricity generation technologies in Budget 2016. This funding will go towards projects beginning from 2021 onwards, which will receive a share of this annual budget for the duration of their 15-year contracts.</p><p>Allocation of the first tranche of this support, totalling £290m, began in November last year and projects receiving this support will be announced later this year. The remainder of the support is expected to be allocated before 2020.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 20/04/2017 08:55:18 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

720926

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
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 recent assessment he has made of the benefits to (a) Scotland and (b) the UK of investment in offshore wind capacity.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	70666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>Investment in offshore wind capacity supports many jobs in both Scotland and the rest of the UK. A BIS report published in 2015, ‘The size and performance of the UK low-carbon economy’, estimated that 13,700 jobs in the UK were supported by offshore wind in 2013.</p><p>Recent announcements of supply chain investments and contract awards include CS Wind, 3 Sun Group and Bi-Fab in Scotland, and JDR Cables, Siemens, Granada Material Handling and Harland &amp; Wolff in the rest of the UK.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 20/04/2017 08:54:33 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

713044

registered interest
date	21/03/2017
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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
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 or its predecessors have conducted an assessment of the effectiveness of training standards developed by the Global Wind Organisation for employees in the UK offshore wind industry.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	68760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department has not carried out an assessment of the training standards developed by the Global Wind Organisation. Training content and training standards are a matter for the industry, and companies need to ensure they comply with relevant health and safety legislation in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 28/03/2017 13:09:03 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman previous answer version 42242 answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

709438

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
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 many wind turbines were installed in the (a) Irish Sea, (b) North Sea and (c) English Channel in each year between 2006-07 and 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	67119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on annual turbine installation rates.</p><p>However, Wind Europe’s “<em>The European Offshore Wind Industry, key trends and statistics 2016</em>” records that, at the end of 2016, the UK had a total of 1,472 turbines installed and connected across 28 windfarms.</p><p>The details can be found at <a href="https://windeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/files/about-wind/statistics/WindEurope-Annual-Offshore-Statistics-2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://windeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/files/about-wind/statistics/WindEurope-Annual-Offshore-Statistics-2016.pdf</a>.</p><p>The Rampion project is in the process of installing the first turbines in the English Channel.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/03/2017 17:54:07 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

709439

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
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 many (a) directly employed and (b) contractor employees there were in the offshore wind industry in each year between 2006-07 and 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	67098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not collate this data on an annual basis. However, the industry currently supports around 13,700 jobs in the UK (7,900 direct and 5,800 indirect) with GVA* of £1 billion (£600m direct and £400m indirect).</p><p> </p><p><em>Source: “The size and performance of the UK low-carbon economy”, BIS, March 2015, </em><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-carbon-economy-size-and-performance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-carbon-economy-size-and-performance</a></em></p><p><em>*Gross Value Added</em></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/03/2017 18:01:41 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

607574

registered interest
date	21/10/2016
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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
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 plans the Government has to (a) monitor and (b) assess the level of UK content during the construction phase of (i) Hywind, (ii) Galloper, (iii) Dudgeon, (iv) Race Bank, (v) Burbo Bank Extension, (vi) Walney Extension, (vii) Beatrice, (viii) Rampion, (ix) Aberdeen Bay and (x) Blyth Offshore Demonstrator wind farms.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	49789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, together with the Department for International Trade, works closely with offshore wind farm developers and UK supply chain companies to maximise the UK content in offshore wind farms.</p><p> </p><p>There is an agreed industry standard methodology in place for the Industry to measure and record the UK content in each offshore wind farm <a href="http://www.renewableuk.com/page/UKcontent" target="_blank">http://www.renewableuk.com/page/UKcontent</a>. The industry will publish anonymised and consolidated results to allow the sector and the public to track the sector’s progress towards fulfilling their vision. As such, the Government does not comment on the construction phases of individual developers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 49788 question first answered 31/10/2016 15:39:59 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

607575

registered interest
date	21/10/2016
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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
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 his Department (a) assesses and (b) monitors the level of UK content during the construction phase of off-shore wind farm developments.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	49788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, together with the Department for International Trade, works closely with offshore wind farm developers and UK supply chain companies to maximise the UK content in offshore wind farms.</p><p> </p><p>There is an agreed industry standard methodology in place for the Industry to measure and record the UK content in each offshore wind farm <a href="http://www.renewableuk.com/page/UKcontent" target="_blank">http://www.renewableuk.com/page/UKcontent</a>. The industry will publish anonymised and consolidated results to allow the sector and the public to track the sector’s progress towards fulfilling their vision. As such, the Government does not comment on the construction phases of individual developers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 49789 question first answered 31/10/2016 15:39:59 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington