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673636

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
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	Green Investment Bank
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on what date Shareholder Executive authorised the Green Investment Bank to set up OSW Co Holdings 1 Limited, Galloper Holdco Ltd, Rampion Holdco Limited, Rampion Investco Limited, OSW LP Holdco Limited, WMR Holdco Limited, Project G Holdings 1 Limited and Project G Holdco Limited.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	60176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p>In November and December 2016 the Green Investment Bank (GIB) incorporated twelve new Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs): Galloper Holdco Limited; OSW Co Holdings 1 Limited; OSW Co Holdings 2 Limited; OSW LP Holdco Limited; Project G Holdco Limited; Project G Holdings 1 Limited; Project G Holdings 2 Limited; Rampion Holdco Limited; WMR Holdco Limited; Rampion Investco Limited; New Green Interim Holdco Limited; and UK Green Investment Lyle Limited.</p><p>The SPV ‘UK Green Investment Lyle Limited’ was incorporated in the course of business-as-usual to support GIB’s investment in the Lincs offshore wind farm (publicly announced by GIB on 13 January 2017).</p><p>The remaining eleven SPVs were incorporated in order to facilitate the potential introduction of private capital in to a number of GIB’s offshore wind assets, following discussion between GIB and the UK Government. These entities are currently dormant and own no assets.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 60177 question first answered 19/01/2017 17:15:44 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

673637

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
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	Green Investment Bank
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 level of ministerial clearance was required by Shareholder Executive to enable the Green Investment Bank to set up OSW Co Holdings 1 Limited, Galloper Holdco Ltd, Rampion Hold Co Limited, Rampion Investco Limited, OSW LP Hold Co Limited, WMR HoldCo Limited, Project G Holdings 1 Limited and Project G Holdco Limited.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	60177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p>In November and December 2016 the Green Investment Bank (GIB) incorporated twelve new Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs): Galloper Holdco Limited; OSW Co Holdings 1 Limited; OSW Co Holdings 2 Limited; OSW LP Holdco Limited; Project G Holdco Limited; Project G Holdings 1 Limited; Project G Holdings 2 Limited; Rampion Holdco Limited; WMR Holdco Limited; Rampion Investco Limited; New Green Interim Holdco Limited; and UK Green Investment Lyle Limited.</p><p>The SPV ‘UK Green Investment Lyle Limited’ was incorporated in the course of business-as-usual to support GIB’s investment in the Lincs offshore wind farm (publicly announced by GIB on 13 January 2017).</p><p>The remaining eleven SPVs were incorporated in order to facilitate the potential introduction of private capital in to a number of GIB’s offshore wind assets, following discussion between GIB and the UK Government. These entities are currently dormant and own no assets.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 60176 question first answered 19/01/2017 17:15:44 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

661844

registered interest
date	19/12/2016
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: Equality
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 30 June 2016 to Question 40488, if he will list his Department's director-level diversity champions.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	58247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Senior Civil Service (SCS) Diversity and Inclusion Champions are listed below, along with their SCS grade.</p><p>Angie Ridgwell, Director General - Finance and Corporate Services</p><p>Gareth Davies, Director General - Business and Science</p><p>Niall Mackenzie, Director - Energy, Materials and Agri-Tech</p><p>Susannah Simon, Director - European Reform</p><p>Luis Castro, Deputy Director - Portfolio Office</p><p>Emma Ward, Director - Strategy</p><p>Stephen Speed, Director - Energy Development</p><p>Paro Konar-Thakkar, Economic Advisor</p><p>James Maskell, Deputy Director - Legal</p><p>Craig Lucas, Director - Science and Innovation</p><p>Dan Osgood, Director - Heat and Business Energy</p><p>Jon Booth, Director - Home and Local Energy</p><p>Katrina Williams, Director- General, International, Science and Resilience</p><p>Zilla Bowell, Deputy Director - Civil Nuclear Security and Safety Assurance</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 11/01/2017 16:36:09 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

659687

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
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: Official Visits
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 official visits (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department have made since his appointment.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	57966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>All Ministerial meetings are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 20/12/2016 15:11:53 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

659688

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
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: Public Appointments
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 public appointments by public body he has made since his appointment.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	57965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to him on 19 December 2016 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-12-12/57268/" target="_blank">57268</a>, and confirm that 14 public appointments have been made since my appointment in July of this year. A further 23 campaigns are currently going through the final stages and will complete in due course.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Partner Organisation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Type of Appointment</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Role</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Industrial Development Advisory Board</p></td><td><p>2 re-appointments</p></td><td><p>Member</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Medical Research Council</p></td><td><p>2 re-appointments</p></td><td><p>Member</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Science and Technology Facilities Council</p></td><td><p>1 new appointment</p></td><td><p>Member</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Competitions Markets Authority</p></td><td><p>3 new appointments</p></td><td><p>Member</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Companies House</p></td><td><p>3 new appointments</p></td><td><p>Member</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Civil Nuclear Police Authority</p></td><td><p>2 new appointments</p></td><td><p>Chair and Member</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Committee on Fuel Poverty</p></td><td><p>1 new appointment</p></td><td><p>Chair</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 20/12/2016 11:45:17 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

658633

registered interest
date	14/12/2016
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	Local Enterprise Partnerships
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 plans to take to increase the transparency of decision-making by local enterprise partnerships' boards.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	57671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>This is taxpayers’ money and we will be working with every LEP to improve transparency which will enable us to follow every pound of public money spent. Just last month we published a strengthened National Assurance Statement which set out the requirement for LEPs to have a published conflict of interest policy; a published register of interests covering all decision-makers, which is kept updated; and a published complaints policy.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 57505 question first answered 20/12/2016 14:48:52 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

658640

registered interest
date	14/12/2016
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: Information Officers
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 annual spend is on salaries for staff in press and communications roles; and how much was spent by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on salaries for staff in such roles in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	57749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>An annual cost is not available. Following the Machinery of Government changes in July 2016, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is currently working to best to align its workforce in order to best deliver its objectives. This includes staff in press and communications roles.</p><p>Information on the salary costs for the press and communications teams for each year since 2010 is not held centrally and would incur disproportionate costs to calculate.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 19/12/2016 14:35:52 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

658018

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
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: Pay
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 the average hourly earnings are of (a) female, (b) male, (c) BAME and (d) non-BAME employees of his Department.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	57519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was created on 14 July 2016. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) were merged to create this new department.</p><p> </p><p>The median salaries for male and females in the table below are published on the Office for National Statistics website every October. This relates to information as at 31 March 2016.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>BIS</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>DECC</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>£39,630</p></td><td><p>£48,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>£35,410</p></td><td><p>£36,160</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The median salaries of BAME and non-BAME staff in the table below have been calculated using data as at October 2016. These figures reflect the different levels of seniority of the employees that have provided their ethnicity information. This information is declared by individual employees on a voluntary basis.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>BIS</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>DECC</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BAME</p></td><td><p>£32,090</p></td><td><p>£36,142</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-BAME</p></td><td><p>£48,192</p></td><td><p>£49,420</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Please note; the information supplied is based on staff working 36 or 37 hours a week (dependent on contract and location).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 16/12/2016 14:28:54 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

658019

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
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	Local Enterprise Partnerships
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 policy is on the registration and declaration of interests by members of Boards of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP); and what steps is he taking to improve standards of transparency in LEP Boards.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	57505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>This is taxpayers’ money and we will be working with every LEP to improve transparency which will enable us to follow every pound of public money spent. Just last month we published a strengthened National Assurance Statement which set out the requirement for LEPs to have a published conflict of interest policy; a published register of interests covering all decision-makers, which is kept updated; and a published complaints policy.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 57671 question first answered 20/12/2016 14:48:52 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

658020

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
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: 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, what roles have been created in the communications team within his Department since its creation.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	57506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>No new communications roles have been created since the creation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The department’s communications team is a merger of the ex-Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) communication teams, as per the wider Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy transition process as part of Machinery of Government (MoG) changes.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 21/12/2016 13:10:29 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis