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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

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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