Trade and Industry

written question – answered on 17 March 2006.

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  • Corporate Behaviour

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps are being taken by his Department to ensure that British companies comply with international guidelines on corporate and social...

  • Corporate Behaviour

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what recent representations he has received on corporate and social responsibility.

  • Default Retirement Age

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the possible effect of the European Court of Justice ruling in Werner Mangold v. Rudiger Helm (Case...

  • Domestic Electricity Generation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps his Department is taking to encourage households to generate their own electricity.

  • Energy Bills

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the average annual energy bill was per household in (a) Wales, (b) England and (c) Scotland in each of the last three years; and if he...

  • Energy Bills

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what was the (a) cost in real terms and (b) percentage increase on the previous year of (i) gas and (ii) electricity prices in each year since...

  • Energy Bills

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade andIndustry how many times (a) his Department and (b) Ofgas has (i) approved and (ii) not approved increases in gas and energy prices since privatisation.

  • Exports/Inward Investment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he plans to make of the UK's inward investment and export promotion policy in comparison with those of the UK's major...

  • Fuel Poverty

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps his Department has taken to reduce the number of domestic energy consumers living in fuel poverty.

  • Fuel Poverty

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the additional measures and resources needed to meet fuel poverty targets to take into account increases in...

  • Fuel Poverty

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) what estimate his Department has made of the potential effect on the (a) number and (b) proportion of pensioners in Wales that will be...

  • Fuel Poverty

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) how many people in Wales are living in fuel poverty; and if he will make a statement; (2) what estimate his Department has made of the...

  • ICI (Child Labour)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what recent discussions he has had with ICI regarding (a) child labour and (b) its fulfilment of its corporate and social responsibility.

  • Imported Manufactured Goods

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the (a) name and (b) composition is of the EU committee which sets the tariff rates for imported manufactured goods.

  • Industrial Diseases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many coal health claims for vibration white finger from residents of (a) Lancashire and (b) West Lancashire have been processed; and how...

  • Industrial Diseases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Tradeand Industry how many coal health claims for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from residents of (a) Lancashire and (b) West Lancashire constituency...

  • Internet (1 annotation)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he last met the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to discuss the monitoring of the internet.

  • Job Relocation (Wales)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many jobs in his Department have been relocated to Wales since 2001.

  • Low Carbons Building Programme

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when the Low Carbon Buildings Programme will start.

  • Low Carbons Building Programme

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the budget is for household grants under the Low Carbon Buildings Programme in 2006–07.

  • Low Carbons Building Programme

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects EU State Aid clearance for the Low Carbon Buildings Programme.

  • North West Regional Development Agency

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many new jobs have been created by the work of the North West regional development agency in the last five years, broken down by county.

  • North West Regional Development Agency

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the cost of capital assistance provided by the North West Regional Development Agency has been in the last five years, broken down by county.

  • North West Regional Development Agency

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many flagship sites the North West Regional Development Agency controls; and what estimate he has made of the capital cost of each.

  • North West Regional Development Agency

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many complaints have been received from companies by the North West Regional Development Agency in the last five years; and what action...

  • Nuclear Decommissioning

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what estimate he has made of the decommissioning costs of each nuclear power plant in Scotland; and if he will make a statement.

  • Nuclear Power

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what plans he has to increase the supply of UK-trained personnel in the field of nuclear power generation.

  • Nuclear Power

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what estimate he has made of availability of trained personnel in the field of nuclear power generation.

  • Pandemic Influenza

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he will be taking to ensure continuity of satisfactory fuel supplies in the event of an outbreak of pandemic influenza; and if he...

  • Professional Institutes

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry which learned institutes are recognised by his Department as professional bodies.

  • Renewable Electricity

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the Government's target is forrenewable electricity generation in each region by 2020; what steps he expects to be taken to achieve this;...

  • Renewable Energy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many households installed wind turbines in each year between 2000 and 2005.

  • Renewable Energy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much grant funding was directed towards household micro-renewable energy projects in 2005 under the Clearskies and Solar Photovoltaics...

  • Scottish Illegal Money Lending Unit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what plans the Government have to extend funding of the Scottish Illegal Money Lending Unit after 31 March 2007.

  • South West Regional Development Agency

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much has been invested in the (a) Objective 1 area and (b) Objective 2 area by the South West Regional Development Agency since it was set up.

  • Sustainable Building

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what proportion of the Department's building programme budget was allocated to (a) energy self-generation and (b) water recycling measures in...

  • Vanity Publishing Industry

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he is taking to regulate the vanity publishing industry.

  • Wind Farms

    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the processes are by which his Department will assess local opinion on the wind farm proposals in Northumberland which are to be...