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51 records in UK in 2016
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 December 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 20 December (HL3914, HL3915, HL3916), whether the fact that renewable energy is a devolved matter means that they did not have any discussions or consultations wi
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 December 2016
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations his Department has received on the change in the value of secured energy bonds that were offered by CDB Energy; and what steps he is taking to address the implications of that change for investor
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department permits its employees to join a credit union through payroll deductions; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of UK aid expenditure on decentralised renewable energy on rural communities; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to remain part of the European Union energy union following Brexit.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the value of (a) staffing expenditure, (b) other revenue costs and (c) capital expenditure by his Department and its arms-length bodies in whole or in
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, who the diversity champion is on his departmental board.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an estimate of the potential net benefit of smart meter roll-out in (a) cost savings for suppliers, (b) cost savings for consumers and (c) the tran
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2016 to Question 40488, if he will list his Department's director-level diversity champions.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many public appointments by public body he has made since his appointment.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what steps he is taking to ensure that the UK's agreement with the EU does not impede Northern Ireland's connections with the energy markets of other European countries.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to secure contingency funding for the continuation of compensation for the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation and small-scale feed-in-tariffs for
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what official visits (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department have made since his appointment.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to (a) expedite the Government's application to the European Commission to exempt energy-intensive industries from the indirect costs of the Renewables Obl
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to develop an integrated national energy efficiency strategy between central and local government, industry, the third sector and local communities.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the recommendation of the Competition and Markets Authority in its Energy Market Investigation report, published on 8 July 2016, that the Government should under
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2016
The Energy Council, chaired by the Slovak Presidency, took place in Brussels on 5 December. I represented the UK at the Council on 5 December.The meeting began with a political debate on the options for regional cooperation, solidarity and transparency fo...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2016
Today my honourable Friend the Parliamentary Under- Secretary for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has made the following statement:The Energy Council, chaired by the Slovak Presidency, took place in Brussels on 5 December. I rep...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his Department's annual spend is on salaries for staff in press and communications roles; and how much was spent by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on sala
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has awarded any commercial contracts to iNHouse Communications Ltd in the last five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the oral contribution by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Treasury Committee on 12 December 2016, in response to Q311, who in his Department is responsible
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the finding of the Competition Markets Authority in its report of 24 June 2016, Energy market investigation, that 90 per cent of domestic energy customers were n
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has had communications with iNHouse Communications Ltd in connection with any current commercial tender process.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to secure contingency funding for the continuation of compensation for the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation and small-scale Feed-in Tariffs for
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what additional options he has assessed to compensate directly competing energy intensive industries against the costs of the Renewables Obligation and Feed-in Tariffs if state ai
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress has been made on the Government's pre-notification of an application for state aid approval to (a) partially exempt energy intensive industries from the costs of th
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to secure contingency funding for the continuation of compensation for the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation and small scale Feed-in Tariffs for
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what meetings he or Ministers of his Department had with representatives of the renewable energy industry on the forthcoming Contracts for Difference auction before that auction w
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to publish the gap in earnings between the (a) highest-paid and lowest-paid full-time employees in his Department and (b) highest-paid employees and average pay i
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average hourly earnings are of (a) female, (b) male, (c) BAME and (d) non-BAME employees of his Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to expedite the Government's application to the European Commission to exempt energy intensive industries from the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligat
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2016
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to provide contingency funding for the continuation of compensation for the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation and small scale Feed-in Tariffs for energy intensive industries beyond A
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether there is a representative of his Department's employees on its departmental board; and what plans he has to provide for additional stakeholder representation on that board
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many staff are seconded to his Department; and from where those staff have been seconded.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to (a) progress the Government's application to the European Commission to exempt and (b) bring forward legislative proposals related to the exemption of e
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans the Government has to provide contingency funding for the continuation of compensation for the indirect costs of the renewables obligation and small scale feed-in-tarif
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2016 to Question 55315, what assessment he has made of the total cost of the smart meter roll out in the event that the deadline for that roll
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what roles have been created in the communications team within his Department since its creation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he took to fulfil his obligation to consult Scottish Ministers, under section 61 of the Scotland Act 2016, on the contents of the Contracts for Difference press announc
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to outline his Department's strategy for promoting the use of sustainable and efficient energy measures in residential homes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to secure contingency funding for the continuation of compensation for the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation and small-scale Feed-in Tariffs for
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it is his Department's policy to increase the number of policy-making civil servants based outside London.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of (a) the Senior Civil Service and (b) policy-making civil servants in his Department are based in London.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many interns are currently working in his Department; at what rate those interns are paid; and what the maximum length of an internship is.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the public investment needed to maintain the UK's energy capacity in the next 20 years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people are registered as using a pre-payment meter to access their electricity and other utilities in (a) Wansbeck constituency, (b) the North East and (c) nationally.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the percentage gap in earnings is between the highest-paid and lowest-paid full-time employee in his Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the percentage gap in earnings is between the pay of full-time staff in the highest pay grade in his Department and average full-time pay in that Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what measures his Department has in place to support those of its staff who have mental health problems.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department has to include worker representation on its departmental board.