Emily Thornberry: ...Information response of 29 January 2024 to the Rt Hon Member for Islington South and Finsbury of 29 January (reference number FOI2023/08394), how many freeports were recorded as having a number of jobs created as a result of verified foreign direct investment of (a) zero, (b) 1 to 50, (c) 51 to 150, (d) 151 to 250, (e) 251 to 400, (f) 401 to 710 and (g) more than 710 between 1 December...
Emily Thornberry: ..., but it will at least deal with the situation whereby someone can work as a Minister for two months, get three months’ severance pay and then seven weeks later go back to exactly the same job and essentially be paid twice. That is what this legislation is here to stop. Surely the hon. Gentleman can support that.
Emily Thornberry: That is not what the motion is about, so I am afraid that I cannot help the Minister. Is she aware that £2.9 million was spent on severance payments to all the special advisers who lost their job in the same year, 2022-23?
Emily Thornberry: ...as Health Secretary in September 2022, but reinstated by the current Prime Minister seven weeks later. What did he do with his severance payment? He returned it in full when he regained his old job, so he deserves praise for that. I praise the current Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, the right hon. Member for Chippenham (Michelle Donelan), who resigned after two...
Emily Thornberry: ...severance after only two months as Veterans Minister, but told Plymouth Live point-blank that he had not accepted a severance payment, and then had the sheer chutzpah to return to exactly the same job seven weeks later without repaying a single penny. Once again, I hope that the expert on these matters will tell us whether that sounds like common sense. Fourthly, there is a much smaller...
Emily Thornberry: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2023 to Question 4105 on Freeports, how many of the 12 freeports were recorded as having (a) a number of jobs created as a result of verified foreign direct investment of (i) 0-50, (ii) 51-100, (iii) 101-150, (iv) 151-200 and (v) more than 200 and (b) an amount of capital expenditure resulting from that...
Emily Thornberry: ...reference to her Department's publication entitled Inward investment in to freeports: December 2021 to November 2023, published on 24 November 2023, if she will detail which freeports the (a) 1,421 jobs and (b) £1,278 million of capital expenditure were attributed to in that publication.
Emily Thornberry: ...to her Department's publication entitled Inward investment in to freeports: December 2021 to November 2023, published on 24 November 2023, what are the equivalent estimates for the (a) number of jobs created and (b) amount of capital expenditure generated as a result of investment by UK resident entities over the period covered by that publication.
Emily Thornberry: ...East and (ii) South West were asked to provide their opinions on the (A) idea behind and (B) messaging around the Eat Out To Help Out Scheme subsequently announced in his predecessor's Plan for Jobs statement on 8 July 2020.
Emily Thornberry: ...and (ii) East Midlands were asked to provide their opinions on the (A) idea behind and (B) messaging around the Eat Out To Help Out Scheme subsequently announced in his predecessor's Plan for Jobs statement on 8 July 2020.
Emily Thornberry: ...commencing (a) 15 June, (b) 22 June, (c) 29 June and (d) 6 July 2020 asked questions relating to the idea behind the Eat Out To Help Out Scheme subsequently announced in his predecessor's Plan for Jobs statement on 8 July 2020.
Emily Thornberry: ...from and (b) made representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to discuss the (i) presence and (ii) potential cost implications of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) within the job centre estate between 13 February 2020 and 5 July 2022.
Emily Thornberry: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the costs incurred by HMRC in relation to preparations for the introduction of the Coronavirus Job Retention Bonus scheme, in the period from the announcement of the scheme on 8 July 2020 to the announcement that the scheme would not proceed on 5 November 2020; and whether these costs have been treated for accounting...
Emily Thornberry: To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to her Department’s inward investment results published on 28 June 2022, how many of the (a) 47,784 new jobs created in 2020-21 and (b) 72,906 new jobs created in 2021-22 related to involved FDI projects verified as net-zero investments aligned to the ten point plan for a green industrial revolution.
Emily Thornberry: To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to her Department’s inward investment results published on 28 June 2022, how many of the (a) 16,174 jobs safeguarded in 2020-21 and (b) 6,665 jobs safeguarded in 2021-22 related to involved FDI projects verified as net-zero investments aligned to the ten point plan for a green industrial revolution.
Emily Thornberry: ...Finance for the provision of Export Development Guarantees in 2020-21 and 2021-22 have included commitments from the recipients relating to the creation or protection of prescribed numbers of jobs in the UK.
Emily Thornberry: To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to UK Export Finance: jobs supported analysis 2020-21, published on 22 June 2021, how many of the estimated (a) 107,000 jobs supported in the UK in 2020-21 and (b) 72,000 jobs supported in the UK in 2021-22 by UK Export Finance were attributable to the provision of Export Development Guarantees.
Emily Thornberry: To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to her Department’s inward investment results published on 28 June 2022, how many of the (a) 47,784 new jobs created in 2020-21 and (b) 72,906 new jobs created in 2021-22 related to involved FDI projects verified as net-zero investments aligned to the ten point plan for a green industrial revolution.
Emily Thornberry: To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to her Department’s inward investment results published on 28 June 2022, how many of the (a) 16,174 jobs safeguarded in 2020-21 and (b) 6,665 jobs safeguarded in 2021-22 related to involved FDI projects verified as net-zero investments aligned to the ten point plan for a green industrial revolution.
Emily Thornberry: To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what income thresholds were used to define the global middle class in the Board of Trade's report Global Britain, Local Jobs, published on 10 March 2021.