Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

written question – answered on 19 June 2018.

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  • Tidal Power: Solway Firth

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the value of the opportunity presented by the tidal lagoon proposal on the...

  • Tidal Power

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to support the development of tidal lagoon technologies as part of the UK energy...

  • Furs: Trade

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what financial support his Department (a) offered and (b) granted to the international fur trade in each year since 2010.

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: International Fur Trade Federation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what meetings have taken place between Ministers or officials of his Department and representatives of the...

  • Trade Unions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to Table 4 in the Director of Labour Market Enforcement’s 2018-19 Strategy, published on 9 May...

  • Life Sciences: Databases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he has taken to streamline the (a) ethical and (b) legal approval processes for national datasets...

  • Galileo System

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to prepare for a UK satellite program after the UK leaves the EU in the event that...

  • Horizon 2020

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken develop a UK scientific research programme after the UK leaves the EU in the event...

  • Euratom

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to prepare for setting up a UK atomic energy agency in the event that the UK cannot...

  • Renewable Energy: Small Businesses

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what financial support the Government is providing to small and medium-sized businesses in the renewables sector.

  • Coal Fired Power Stations: Standards

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average efficiency is of the UK coal-fired power station fleet; and if he will make a statement.

  • Energy: Housing

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much electricity an average UK household consumed per annum in each year since 2010 for which information is...

  • Coal Fired Power Stations

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much coal is required to produce (a) one KWh of electricity in a UK coal-fired power station ( b) one tonne of...

  • Ombudsman Services: Retail Trade

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring all retailers to participate in the Consumer Ombudsman...

  • Hitachi

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the safety record of Hitachi in relation to its nuclear power projects...

  • Nuclear Power: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will undertake a public consultation on the use of funding from the public purse in support of a nuclear programme.

  • Nuclear Power: Cost Effectiveness

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what criteria his Department plans to use to assess the value for money of financing arrangements for a new nuclear...

  • Wylfa Power Station: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 4 June 2018, on Nuclear Power, Official Report, column 76, if he will publish the...

  • Wylfa Power Station: Cost Effectiveness

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made a comparative assessment of the value for money of (a) Wylfa Newydd nuclear project and (b) a...

  • Agency Workers: Wales

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of agency workers who are on pay between assignment contracts in Wales.

  • Fracking

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential increase in the manufacturing of non-degradable plastics from an...

  • Exports: USA

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support his Department is providing to UK companies who export steel products to the US to help them apply for...

  • Offshore Industry: Free Movement of Labour

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect of ending freedom of movement on the oil and gas industry...

  • Renewable Energy: Free Movement of Labour

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect of ending freedom of movement on the renewables industry...

  • Carbon Capture and Storage: Free Movement of Labour

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect of ending freedom of movement on carbon capture and storage...

  • Energy: International Cooperation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made plans for the UK to participate in the North Seas Countries Offshore Grid Initiative after the UK...

  • Renewable Energy: EU Law

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made plans for the UK to incorporate the Renewable Energy Directive into domestic law after the UK...

  • Offshore Industry: Taxation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what representations he has made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on implementing the Transferable Tax History...

  • Energy: Scotland

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it his policy to use energy policy to boost employment in Scotland.

  • Renewable Energy: UK Trade with EU

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect on the renewables industry of the UK exiting the single market.

  • Offshore Industry: UK Trade with EU

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect on the oil and gas industry of the UK exiting the single market.

  • Carbon Capture and Storage: UK Trade with EU

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect of the UK leaving the single market on the carbon capture and storage industry.

  • Wylfa Power Station

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many representations has he received from civil society organisations on the proposed Wylfa nuclear plant in Wales;...

  • Carbon Capture and Storage: Expenditure

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department has spent in each of the last 10 financial years on assessing carbon capture and storage as a...

  • Hinkley Point C Power Station

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on which dates (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department met representatives on the Hinkley C nuclear power...

  • Renewable Energy: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish the post-FIT consultation framework and the allocation of funding to onshore and solar power.

  • National Grid Electricity Transmission

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to ensure that the National Grid remains part of the European Network of Transmission Operators...

  • Energy Supply: EU Countries

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made plans for the UK to remain part of EU-wide solidarity mechanisms in the event of an acute energy...

  • Electricity: EU Countries

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the UK will still be able to enter capacity market auctions after the UK leaves the EU; and if he will make a...

  • Tidal Power: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his Department's policy is on allocating funds from the public purse to expand the UK's tidal energy capacity.

  • Wylfa Power Station

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department made of international trends in the use of nuclear technology to generate electricity...

  • Telephone Services: Fees and Charges

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of regulation 41 of the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation...

  • Galileo System

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential for job losses as a result of the UK withdrawing from the...

  • Global Navigation Satellite Systems

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the UK’s ability to launch a network of satellites equivalent to the...