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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

748354

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	Nuclear Power Stations: Construction
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 effect on UK energy security of any change in ownership of the NuGen power station at Moorside; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	2718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>There are no security of supply implications arising from the potential change in ownership of NuGen. The UK has established processes through the Capacity Market to ensure security of supply through a diverse range of generation assets.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/07/2017 10:48:30 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

748355

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	Nuclear Power Stations: Construction
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 completion date for the NuGen nuclear power station at Moorside; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	2719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>Toshiba are considering options for the sale of NuGen, who are currently undertaking an internal strategic review looking at options to take forward their proposed project at Moorside. The project timetable will be dependent on decisions made in the light of this review.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/07/2017 10:47:20 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

748356

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	Research: Private Sector
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 incentives his Department provides to the private sector to increase expenditure on research and development.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	2975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>We are increasing public investment in research and development investment by £4.7 billion over the period 2017-18 to 2020-21. This equates to an extra £2 billion per year by 2020-21 and is an increase of around 20% to total government R&amp;D spending, more than any increase in any parliament since 1979.</p><p>We are creating the right environment to incentivise private sector investment in R&amp;D. Innovate UK currently provides funding for research, development and demonstration projects and has funded over 11,000 projects to date, with over 8,000 unique organisations involved.Through Innovate UK, we have established a network of Catapult Centres to commercialise new and emerging technologies and Catapults are forecast to attract total public and private investment exceeding £1.6bn over their first five years of operation. R&amp;D tax credits encourage greater R&amp;D investment by business and in the year ending 31 March 2015 almost 21,000 companies used the R&amp;D tax credits to claim a total amount of £2.45 billion, with R&amp;D expenditure used to make these claims reaching £21.8 billion.</p><p>Science, Research and Innovation will be at the heart of our Industrial Strategy and this Government has bold ambitions to increase R&amp;D and back industries of the future. Our commitment to reach R&amp;D investment of 2.4% of GDP within ten years and 3% in the longer-term is part of this.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 11/07/2017 16:12:03 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

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

749756

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	Navy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to expand the Royal Navy.
tabling member constituency	Harrow East
tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
uin	900312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Royal Navy is growing for the first time in a generation. The first of two new aircraft carriers, HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, is at sea conducting trials. There will be new submarines; frigates – we have placed the contract for the first three Type 26s; aircraft; patrol vessels; support ships and tankers. We will increase Naval personnel numbers by 400 to 30,600 by 2025.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 10/07/2017 15:57:55 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman