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748346

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date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Age
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 4 of the Social Mobility Commission report Time for Change, published on 28 June 2017, for what reasons more older than younger workers have obtained apprenticeships.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	2750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>Tackling social mobility is at the heart of the government’s ambition to make Britain a country that works for everyone. As part of this, we are committed to ensuring that high quality apprenticeships are accessible to people of all ages and from all backgrounds.</p><p> </p><p>Apprenticeships are paid jobs with training and can be used to train and upskill existing employees as well as a means of recruiting new staff.</p><p> </p><p>It is important that people of all ages and backgrounds are able to achieve the long term benefits associated with completing an apprenticeship in terms of increased wages and career progression.</p><p> </p><p>We are providing additional funding to support young people and those from disadvantaged areas to access apprenticeships, recognising where the costs of supporting an apprentice are higher. This includes additional payments for both employers and training providers when they take on 16 to 18 year olds or 19 to 24 year olds who were in care or who have an Education, Health and Care Plan, and cash payments to providers for training individuals from the top 27% of deprived areas.</p><p> </p><p>Our ‘Get In Go Far’ campaign aims to inspire more young people to take on an apprenticeship, and more employers to offer them.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 10/07/2017 16:38:04 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

748347

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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: Planning Permission
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 any planning applications have been submitted for new onshore wind farms since 9 June 2017; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	2753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held by the Department at this time.</p><p>The Department maintains the Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), which tracks the progress of new renewable energy projects, including onshore wind projects, as they move through the planning system. The database is updated and published on a monthly basis. An update for June 2017 will be published shortly on the Department’s website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract</a></p><p>It should be noted that the REPD shows projects that have applied for planning permission in the previous month or earlier for projects with a capacity greater than, or equal to, 1MW. Therefore, planning applications that were submitted in June may appear in later monthly REPD updates.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/07/2017 16:28:27 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

748348

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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	Fracking: Regulation
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 establishing a Shale Environmental Regulator; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	2752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government has been recently elected and its approach to implementing the manifesto proposals, including the establishment of a Shale Environmental Regulator, has yet to be finalised.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/07/2017 16:28:51 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

748349

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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	Natural Gas: Competition
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 further improve competition in the domestic gas industry; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	2760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>Progress has been made in recent years to improve competition in the domestic retail gas with households now having a choice of around 55 companies supplying gas. Smaller suppliers are continuing to grow their market share and now have just over 18% of the domestic retail gas market.</p><p>We have reduced by half the time it takes to switch suppliers and are working with Ofgem to move to even faster and more reliable switching. Ofgem are working on developing better ways to engage consumers and on 3 July announced trials to help customers on expensive standard tariffs find and switch to cheaper energy deals.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/07/2017 08:45:20 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

748350

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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	Renewable Energy: Technology Transfer
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 role the Government is playing in facilitating technological transfer to smaller countries to grow their renewable energy sectors and reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	2761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy prepares biennial reports to the United Nations on the UK’s progress in tackling climate change, which include an assessment of the technical and financial support that HMG provides to other countries to assist them to deploy clean energy. The most recent report can be found on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) website: <a href="http://unfccc.int/files/national_reports/biennial_reports_and_iar/submitted_biennial_reports/application/pdf/20151218_uk_biennial_report_2_web_accessible.pdf" target="_blank">http://unfccc.int/files/national_reports/biennial_reports_and_iar/submitted_biennial_reports/application/pdf/20151218_uk_biennial_report_2_web_accessible.pdf</a>. Chapter 5 sets out an overview of the financial and technical support provided and Table 7 in Annex 1 provides details of individual projects.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/07/2017 16:31:32 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

748352

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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	Renewable Energy: Jamaica
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 the Government is taking to support the transfer of technology to Jamaica in relation to the renewable energy programme in that country.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	2769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK has provided 9% of donor funding to the 6th replenishment of the Global Environment Facility (GEF6). Total funding for GEF6 including projected investment income and other sources of finance is expected to be $4.43bn (2014-2018). The GEF is currently providing $2.3m to the Low Greenhouse Gas Emissions (LGGE) Project, a programme which is promoting Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Buildings in Jamaica.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/07/2017 16:30:23 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

748353

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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	Energy: Housing
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 information his Department holds on how many households are on energy suppliers' standard variable rates.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	2705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>BEIS run a quarterly survey of domestic electricity and gas suppliers. This survey has coverage of around 85 per cent of the market. Data is supplied to BEIS, on numbers of customers by tariff by region by payment type, but as this data is supplied in confidence, individual tariff or company data cannot be made publically available.</p><p>Aggregate statistics are produced and published as part of our quarterly energy prices (QEP) publication. In quarter 1 2017, we estimate 66 per cent of standard electricity and 65 per cent of gas customers were on variable tariffs. Our current methodology does not breakout standard variable tariffs from other variable tariffs.</p><p>Data can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-price-stastics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-price-stastics</a></p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/07/2017 16:31:49 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

748359

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, if he will take steps to ensure that the interests of people from diverse communities are represented during the negotiations on the UK exiting the EU.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	2771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>DExEU Ministers continue to work closely with their colleagues across Government to ensure that we are speaking with a broad range of people, who reflect the diversity of the UK. The Department is also engaging, at both Ministerial and official level, with groups and organisations who support and represent the diverse communities of the UK. We will continue to hear from these groups throughout the negotiation process.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 10/07/2017 16:34:26 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

748360

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Department for Exiting the European Union: Legal Profession
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many civil servants has been employed by his Department as specialist lawyers since its creation; what the pay grades are of those officials; how many lawyers have been seconded to his Department, from which firms, since its creation; and how much has been spent on such external legal advice and services.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	2904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Exiting the European Union receives legal services from the Government Legal Department so has not directly employed any civil servants or secondees as specialist lawyers. Currently there are approximately 40 GLD lawyers working for the benefit of DExEU and the costs of this work will be published in the Annual Report and Accounts shortly.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 10/07/2017 16:31:21 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

749755

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he had with contractors on their delivery of service accommodation; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Liz Twist
uin	900314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave earlier today to the hon. Member for Peterborough (Fiona Onasanya).</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 10/07/2017 16:04:14 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4618 label Biography information for Liz Twist