Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what subsidy has been provided to compensate for inactive wind turbines over the last 12 months for which figures are available.
Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the cross-lifetime consumer end cost is for each mode of renewable energy to produce an average unit of electricity.
Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the average annual failure rate of wind turbines is.
Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the average installation cost of a wind turbine is.
Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will list by value the 10 largest recipients of grant to landowners for allowing the siting of wind turbines.
Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will list by value the 10 largest recipients of grant to wind turbine manufacturers.
Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what proportion of his Department's former library currently resides within other Government institutions; what measures are being planned to restore this material to his Department; what proportion of the Library material has been sold; what revenue was generated from such sales; what the assessed value of that material...
Brian Binley: The Minister knows I am keen on using community assets in a much more imaginative way. How might we do that in this context, particularly with libraries, which are very underfunded, as the shadow Minister stated? How might we improve that situation and have a more involved local community push in this respect?
Brian Binley: I believe that our libraries can offer much more training than they are at present. I urge the Minister to look at the connection between education and libraries, particularly with regard to technology. I am one of the people who are bemused by it. It is right to point out that this is a generational issue, but I think we could do much more in our localities through our libraries if only...
Brian Binley: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who I will refer to as my hon. Friend, because he is a friend. I am delighted that he is speaking so passionately from such an informed background—it is very helpful. I wonder whether we have enough of a joined-up approach to adult illiteracy and innumeracy. I also wonder whether we use our libraries enough, and whether the Minister ought to be thinking...
Brian Binley: I apologise for being late, Mr Speaker. When I was a relatively young man, I took great advantage of, and was very well served by, the Workers Education Association. I was a secondary modern schoolboy who left at 15, and the WEA had the important effect of broadening my horizons. Will the hon. Lady help us by telling us whether that organisation is still doing that good work? If so, are we...
Brian Binley: I am slightly confused by the right hon. Gentleman’s remarks, given what we have heard from many leading trade unionists about the possibility of strikes over the next six months. Does he not recognise that that poses a sizeable danger to the country’s economy, or is he telling me that the strikes will not happen because what the trade union leaders are saying is a sham?
Brian Binley: Having left school at 15 and been a member of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, before going on to found two businesses, I can tell the hon. Lady that small businesses always need to look after their employees, because they rely on them so heavily. If a business gets a good employee, it needs to keep hold of them, so there is a lot more care in the workplace than she is...
Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much his Department pays in subsidy for each unit of energy produced by each form of renewable energy.
Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the cost was of UK participation at the Nobel Prize Ceremony 2013.
Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the potential cost to the UK of EU directives establishing a Single European Railway Area; and if he will make a statement.
Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the UK share of EU financial support under the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund is.
Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what comparative analysis his Department has made of the competitiveness and cost-efficiency of the (a) UK and (b) EU wind turbine industries.
Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans the Prime Minister has to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Treaty of Paris 1763.
Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many employees in the wind turbine industry in the (a) UK and (b) EU have lost their jobs in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.