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1240343

registered interest
date	05/10/2020
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	Construction: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2020 to Question 68388 on Construction Materials, what progress the Government has made on its work with the Construction Leadership Council’s Coronavirus Task Force; and what products have been identified as in short supply.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	99055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government continues to work closely with the construction sector to ensure that it can support the economic recovery. This includes the work of the Construction Leadership Council’s Coronavirus Task Force, which continues to monitor the supply and demand of products.</p><p> </p><p>Products in short supply recently include plaster, ceramic roof tiles, external timber and related products, and hard landscaping products. Whilst the supply situation for most products has steadily improved over time, we continue to work closely with the industry to monitor this.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 08/10/2020 15:49:32 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1238990

registered interest
date	29/09/2020
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	Government Internal Audit Agency: Standards
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 remedial steps were taken by his Department in response to the Government Internal Audit Agency rating downgrade in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	96793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2020 answer text <p>In the 2017-18 Annual Report and Accounts, the Group Chief Internal Auditor (GCIA) from the Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) provided an overall ‘moderate’ opinion on the framework of governance, risk management, and control within the Department for 2017-18. This was an increase from the ‘limited’ level of assurance received by the Department for 2016-17. The Report is published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-annual-report-and-accounts-2017-to-2018.</p><p> </p><p>The strengthened assurance rating recognised the good progress made and initiatives taken across the Department to further develop the governance, risk management, and control environment. This included continuing the transformation to a single Department and the introduction of new risk management and contract management frameworks. New control measures were introduced, supported by a new internal controls team to strengthen the Department’s approach to assurance and to address control weaknesses identified by the GIAA, such as ensuring internal audit actions are implemented promptly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since 2017-18 the Department has continued to make improvements within its internal control environment, more detail on which is set out in subsequent Annual Reports and Accounts.</p><p> </p><p>As noted by the GIIA, this has been achieved against the backdrop of a challenging scale of policy and programme work that the Department has been able to deliver concurrently.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 07/10/2020 17:01:47 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1236556

registered interest
date	23/09/2020
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	Urenco: Security
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 investigations into security breaches of URENCO employees are required to involve notification of Ultra-Centrifuge Nederland NV and Uranit GmbH.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	93534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2020 answer text <p>URENCO operations in the UK are regulated by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), with clear criteria for the reporting of security breaches. Security breaches are reported to the ONR and to the UK, Dutch, and German members of the Security Work Group. The Security Working Group is made up of regulators from the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, France, and the US, as well as representatives from the Enrichment Technology Company and URENCO. Severe breaches may also be reported to the board of URENCO, on which Directors appointed by Ultra-Centrifuge Nederland NV and Uranit GmbH sit.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 29/09/2020 16:17:34 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1237215

registered interest
date	23/09/2020
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	Mining: Lithium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he has made an assessment of the potential merits of mining lithium in the UK to produce responsibly sourced electric vehicle batteries.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	94347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2020 answer text <p>In order to meet the anticipated global demand for batteries for electric vehicles, production needs to increase significantly worldwide. Lithium and associated Li-ion technology is a key component. The Faraday Battery Challenge is supporting the increase in production of current Li-ion technology - from early stage research, through innovation, to scale-up - to help position the UK to best capture this market.</p><p> </p><p>The Faraday Battery Challenge is looking at the feasibility of extracting lithium in the UK, including in Scotland and Cornwall. Research suggests that domestic sources of lithium have the potential to provide a substantial portion of the UK’s future demand, allowing us to develop a domestic, environmentally responsible, lithium supply. In order to ensure that the full value that we expect this new industry to generate is captured in the UK, it is essential to build the rest of the downstream supply chain domestically, so that battery-quality chemicals and batteries can also be produced here.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 28/09/2020 13:28:32 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1237216

registered interest
date	23/09/2020
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	Batteries: Technology
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 steps he is taking to make the UK a leading producer of battery technology.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	94348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2020 answer text <p>In order to meet the anticipated global demand for batteries for electric vehicles, production needs to increase significantly worldwide. Lithium and associated Li-ion technology is a key component. The Faraday Battery Challenge is supporting the increase in production of current Li-ion technology - from early stage research, through innovation, to scale-up - to help position the UK to best capture this market.</p><p> </p><p>The Faraday Battery Challenge is looking at the feasibility of extracting lithium in the UK, including in Scotland and Cornwall. Research suggests that domestic sources of lithium have the potential to provide a substantial portion of the UK’s future demand, allowing us to develop a domestic, environmentally responsible, lithium supply. In order to ensure that the full value that we expect this new industry to generate is captured in the UK, it is essential to build the rest of the downstream supply chain domestically, so that battery-quality chemicals and batteries can also be produced here.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 28/09/2020 13:33:42 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1237217

registered interest
date	23/09/2020
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	Electric Vehicles
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 estimate he has made of the number of electric vehicles produced in the UK in 2030.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	94349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>The Faraday Institution, which supports UK battery development, estimates that the UK will be producing nearly 1.6 million electric vehicles (EVs) per year by 2040. The report ‘UK electric vehicle and battery production potential to 2040’ can be downloaded from the Faraday Institution’s website at: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffaraday.ac.uk%2Fpublications%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CEghosa.Obasiagbon%40beis.gov.uk%7C03ef3bbdb2f1488cb0c408d860815170%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637365455815851711&amp;sdata=tbwz8IQSFT1%2F8yqDynzaFCJk8s4RzzC6xGwz70zUins%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://faraday.ac.uk/publications/.</a></p><p>The Government continues to create the right environment to support an increase in the production of EVs in the UK. We have announced up to £1 billion through the Automotive Transformation Fund to develop UK supply chains for the large-scale production of EVs and for further research and development (R&amp;D). £10 million of funding will enable the first wave of innovative R&amp;D projects to scale-up manufacturing of the latest technology in batteries, motors, electronics, and fuel cells. The Government is also encouraging industry to put forward investment proposals for gigafactories and to support supply chains to mass manufacture cutting-edge batteries for the next generation of EVs, as well as for other strategic electric vehicle technologies.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/10/2020 15:03:59 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1237219

registered interest
date	23/09/2020
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	Electric Vehicles
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 estimate he has made of the number of people who will be employed in the electric vehicle manufacturing sector by 2030.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	94351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>The Faraday Institution, which supports UK battery development, estimates that the overall industry workforce in the automotive and electric vehicle battery ecosystem could grow by 29% from 170,000 employees in 2020 to 220,000 employees by 2040. The report ‘UK electric vehicle and battery production potential to 2040’ can be downloaded from the Faraday Institution’s website at: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffaraday.ac.uk%2Fpublications%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CEghosa.Obasiagbon%40beis.gov.uk%7C96d0428efcb24aeb122a08d860a14577%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637365593048835501&amp;sdata=gDCO8vfB%2FZPoYV%2BMK%2ByBgZimqXjzbsak802hlITd0xA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://faraday.ac.uk/publications/.</a></p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/10/2020 15:00:43 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1236039

registered interest
date	21/09/2020
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	Mining: Radioactive Waste
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 assessment he has made of whether the Radioactive Waste Management Strategy has ensured that radioactive by-products from the extractive industry are always processed in a safe manner.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	92950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2020 answer text <p>Waste from the extractive industry is covered by the 2009 Radioactive Discharges Strategy (2009 Discharges Strategy) and the 2014 <em>Strategy for the management of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) waste in the UK</em>. These strategies aim to limit the exposure of the public and the environment to radiation and require the safe processing of waste as part of those intended outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>In England, the safe management of radioactive wastes is regulated by the Environment Agency in accordance with The Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016.</p><p> </p><p>A 2018 review of the 2009 Discharges Strategy found that the UK was making good progress towards the Strategy’s intended outcomes and was contributing to the dose reduction aims of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic. Overall progress on the Strategy’s implementation is monitored through close liaison with our partners in the Devolved Administrations and UK environmental regulators.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 29/09/2020 16:13:18 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1236160

registered interest
date	21/09/2020
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	Energy: Foreign Investment in UK
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 the Government is taking steps to (a) help ensure energy independence and (b) limit the role of overseas state actors in the supply of (i) nuclear and (ii) other forms of energy.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	92931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2020 answer text <p>UK energy supplies are currently derived from a wide range of sources; progress towards the UK’s target to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 will further diversify our energy system.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has supported measures and programmes to support the production and use of renewable energy infrastructure. For example, the Offshore Wind Sector Deal will support the delivery of up to 30GW of offshore wind by 2030 in Great Britain; the Government has made a £3 billion investment to support low-carbon innovation in the UK up to 2021; and there is an ongoing commitment to developing the UK’s domestic hydrogen sector.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst inward investment into the UK energy sector is welcomed, all foreign involvement in critical national infrastructure undergoes the highest level of scrutiny. The UK civil nuclear sector has a strong regulatory system and companies involved in the industry are required to meet robust standards overseen by independent regulators.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 29/09/2020 16:36:24 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1236161

registered interest
date	21/09/2020
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	Nuclear Power
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 expand the nuclear energy sector.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	92932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2020 answer text <p>The construction of Hinkley Point C in Somerset is well underway, employing thousands of workers and having already invested almost £1.7 billion in the regional economy.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2020, the UK nuclear industry issued an update on progress towards the commitments and targets contained within the £200 million plus Nuclear Sector Deal. the industry also issued a report which set out how to cut the cost of new nuclear plants.</p><p> </p><p>Building on the advanced nuclear spending commitments of the Nuclear Sector Deal, we have developed a package of funding now worth approximately £100 million, designed to turbocharge the UK’s advanced nuclear industry. This includes the initial £36 million received last year by the UK Small Modular Reactor consortium, led by Rolls-Royce, to further develop their design, as well as this year’s investment of £40 million in projects focused on developing advanced modular reactors and upskilling our world-class regulators.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 29/09/2020 16:31:12 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker