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623470

registered interest
date	28/10/2016
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	Fracking
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 discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the potential effect of the Government's fracking strategy on local communities.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	50945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>Both the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are clear that local communities will have the opportunity to take part in and comment on matters that impact on their local area. Any shale planning application – whether decided by Local Authorities or Government – will continue to require a full consultation with local people.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2016 11:08:11 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

622502

registered interest
date	27/10/2016
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	Tidal Power: Swansea Bay
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 the value for money case for Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon; and whether that assessment has been shared with the Hendy Review team.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Roger Mullin
uin	50847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s assessment as to whether the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon can be considered to be value for money is currently underway. No assessment has been provided to the Hendry Review team.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2016 11:40:40 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4468 label Biography information for Roger Mullin

622583

registered interest
date	27/10/2016
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	Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 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, whether his Department is on track to meet the UK target under the Climate Change Act 2008 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 per cent from the 1990 baseline by 2050.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	50798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to tackling climate change and to the UK’s Climate Change Act. Climate change remains one of the most serious long-term risks to our economic and national security. We have already made good progress towards our goal, with the first carbon budget covering 2008 to 2012 being met. Provisional statistics indicate that UK emissions in 2015 were 38% lower than in 1990, and 3% below those in 2014.</p><p>We are looking ahead to our emissions reduction plan which will set out how we will reduce emissions through the 2020s, keeping us on track for our 2050 target.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 01/11/2016 15:44:57 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

622584

registered interest
date	27/10/2016
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	Weather: Warnings
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 he has to improve the resolution of weather warning systems.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	50742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The Met Office is committed to improving the accuracy of its weather forecasts on a continuous basis. Further improvements to the Met Office’s high resolution forecast model and systems are planned during the next twelve months, enabled by our investment in the new Met Office supercomputer. These improvements will provide additional local detail within rainfall forecasts for Cumbria and across the rest of the UK and also help to better quantify the uncertainty within rainfall predictions. <em>This will enable the Met Office to provide earlier, more accurate and more detailed warning of severe weather and help the UK to be more resilient and better prepared for high impact events.</em></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 01/11/2016 16:20:09 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

622725

registered interest
date	27/10/2016
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	Nissan: Sunderland
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 Nissan's announcement of 27 October 2016 on the production of the next Qashqai and X-Trail models in the UK, what support and assurances the Government has offered to that company.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	50793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon Member to the statement made by my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State to the House on this matter on 31 October 2016, Official Report col 679-80.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 01/11/2016 16:17:56 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

622726

registered interest
date	27/10/2016
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	Nissan: Sunderland
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 Answer of 17 October 2016 to Question LH2367, what steps his Department is taking to ensure small and medium-sized enterprises involved in the supply chain for the production of Nissan vehicles in the North East automotive sector remain competitive.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	50794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Work by the Automotive Council has identified £6bn per annum additional opportunities for UK suppliers, where they can compete successfully to win this business. The Government is working closely with the Automotive Council and the wider sector to help secure this.</p><p> </p><p>Government support for small and medium sized enterprises, including suppliers to Nissan, is provided through the range of measures and competitive funding competitions. This includes the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative, with projects running through to 2019, and the Advanced Propulsion Centre, which promotes collaborative R&amp;D between suppliers and vehicle makers to develop products to improve vehicle efficiency and reduce emissions.</p><p> </p><p>As part of a wider programme of long term investment in the North East, the Sunderland and South Tyneside City Deal includes a £5million government investment in a new Advanced Manufacturing Park, which will support the local automotive supply chain.</p><p> </p><p>Further support is provided by the North East Automotive Alliance, which runs a supplier competitiveness programme funded by the European Regional Development Fund.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 01/11/2016 16:15:41 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

621965

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Location
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of senior civil service graded posts in his Department classified as (i) deputy director, (ii) assistant director, (iii) team leader and (iv) policy manager have been based outside London in each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	50393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was created in July 2016; therefore no data for the department exists prior to that date.</p><p>The number and proportion of our Senior Civil Service graded posts in the department classified as (i) deputy director, (ii) assistant director, (iii) team leader or (iv) policy manager, as at 30 September 2016, are shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Total number of Deputy Directors</p></td><td><p>191</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total number of Deputy Directors based outside London</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Percentage of Deputy Directors based outside London</p></td><td><p>6.8%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 31/10/2016 14:10:47 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

622051

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
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	Home Loss Payments
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 times the Secretary of State has exercised his powers to make payments above £15,000 under the House Loss Payments Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Tynemouth
tabling member printed	Mr Alan Campbell
uin	50554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has not exercised his powers to make payments above £15,000 under the House Loss Payments Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2016 12:15:06 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	529 label Biography information for Sir Alan Campbell

622052

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
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	Coal Authority: Legal Opinion
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 the Coal Authority has spent on external legal advice in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Tynemouth
tabling member printed	Mr Alan Campbell
uin	50556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>The Coal Authority’s external legal spend over the last five years is broken-down as follows:</p><p>Oct 2011 - Sep 2012 448,512.24</p><p>Oct 2012 - Sep 2013 615,208.40</p><p>Oct 2013 - Sep 2014 418,516.90</p><p>Oct 2014 - Sep 2015 371,561.44</p><p>Oct 2015 - Sep 2016 771,867.78</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2016 12:15:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	529 label Biography information for Sir Alan Campbell

622053

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
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	Coal Authority: Staff
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 people have been employed in the Coal Authority in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Tynemouth
tabling member printed	Mr Alan Campbell
uin	50555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>Total Coal Authority average headcount for the last five years is broken-down as follows:</p><p>2016 183</p><p>2015 168</p><p>2014 143</p><p>2013 136</p><p>2012 139</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2016 12:14:19 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	529 label Biography information for Sir Alan Campbell