Asked by: Rebecca Long Bailey (Labour - Salford and Eccles)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to rows 25,26 and 27 of the table on page 36 of the his Department's 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, if he will publish a breakdown of spending under the heading Capability: Core and Agency Admin, Centrally held/unallocated and Other Programmes.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The breakdown of expenditure included in Capability Resource DEL is as shown in the following table:
| £m |
Wages and salaries | 186.9 |
Purchase of goods and services | 106.7 |
Rentals | 23.7 |
Depreciation and Amortisation | 18.1 |
Business Rates | 15.0 |
Transfers into Committee on Climate Change | (1.3) |
Sales of goods & services/fees & charges income | (32.4) |
Total Core and Agency Admin | 316.7 |
Centrally held/unallocated Programme budget including Invest to Save | 151.4 |
Total Centrally held/unallocated | 151.4 |
Energy Resilience | 10.3 |
Estates | 4.3 |
Legal | 2.4 |
Finance | 2.2 |
Compensations Payments Programme | 1.5 |
Energy Statistics Research & Analysis | 0.9 |
Communications | 0.9 |
Staff Exit Provision | 0.8 |
Departmental Security | 0.5 |
Assurance Reviews and PPM Capability | 0.4 |
Construction: Statistics and Other Sponsorship Activities | 0.2 |
Income from Other Government Departments | (19.2) |
Total Other Programmes | 5.2 |
Asked by: Rebecca Long Bailey (Labour - Salford and Eccles)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row 8 of the table on page 37 of his Department's 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, if he will publish a breakdown of spending under the heading Government as a Shareholder: Other Programmes.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The breakdown of spending under the heading Government as a Shareholder: Other Programmes is as shown in the following table: -
| £m |
Companies House: Administration of the Late Filing Penalties Regime | 4.9 |
Business Environment: Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) | 0.1 |
British Business Bank: Enable Funding Interest Income (Loans to SME’s) | (2.2) |
Companies House: Annual Dividend Receivable | (4.0) |
Total Other Programmes | (1.2) |
Asked by: Rebecca Long Bailey (Labour - Salford and Eccles)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row 16 of the table on page 37 of his Department's 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, if he will publish a breakdown of spending under the heading Financial Reporting Council Admin.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
There was no admin spend required against Part II, sub-head K for the Financial Reporting Council in the BEIS 2018/19 Main Estimate. As it was identified the budget was not actually required it was removed at the Supplementary Estimate.
Asked by: Rebecca Long Bailey (Labour - Salford and Eccles)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row 15 of the table on page 37 of his Department's 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, if he will publish a breakdown of spending under the heading Competition Service Programme.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The breakdown of expenditure of spending under the heading Competition Service Programme is as shown in the following table:
| £m |
Staff Costs | 1.5 |
Purchase of Goods and Services | 1.0 |
Accommodation | 1.3 |
Depreciation/Amortisation | 0.2 |
Total (Competition Service Programme) | 4.0 |
Asked by: Rebecca Long Bailey (Labour - Salford and Eccles)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the postcode location is of every large post office in the UK.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The Government recognises the critical role that post offices play in communities and for small businesses across the UK. This is why the Government committed to safeguard the post office network and protect existing rural services. The overall number of post offices across the UK remains at its most stable in decades with over 11,500 branches thanks to significant Government investment of over £2 billion since 2010.
While the Government sets the strategic direction for the Post Office, it allows the company the commercial freedom to deliver this strategy as an independent business. The postcode location of every large Post Office in the UK is an operational matter for Post Office Limited. I have therefore asked the Group Chief Executive of Post Office Limited, to write to the hon Member on this matter. A copy of the reply will be placed in the Libraries of the House.
Asked by: Rebecca Long Bailey (Labour - Salford and Eccles)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row 25 of the table on page 39 of his Department's publication, 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, if he will publish a description of spending under the heading Heat.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The spending under the heading of ‘Heat’ relates to the FY 2018-19 capital budget (£137.5 million) for the Heat Network Investment Project (HNIP). This scheme will provide £320 million of capital funding (across the life of the programme) to gap fund heat network projects in England and Wales. The scheme is open to the public, private and third sectors. Following confirmation by HMT in October 2018, the FY 2018-19 budget was reprofiled.
Details of the scheme are available on gov.uk, the HNIP page is at hnip-scheme-overview.
Asked by: Rebecca Long Bailey (Labour - Salford and Eccles)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row 12 of the table on page 39 of his Department's publication 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, if he will publish a description of spending under the heading International Climate Finance.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
BEIS annual accounts https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-annual-report-and-accounts-2017-to-2018 , include a section on the department’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) expenditure including International Climate Finance spend.
In addition, BEIS International Climate Finance spend forms part of the Government’s annual ODA statistics at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2017 . and is elaborated in reporting to both the EU and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/gb/eu/mmr/art16_finance/envw6tyfq/Final_2018_UK_MMR_climate_finance_report.xlsx/manage_document . BEIS individual programme documents such as business cases are published on the Development Tracker website at https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/department/BEIS .
Asked by: Rebecca Long Bailey (Labour - Salford and Eccles)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row 13 of the table on page 36 of his Department's publication, 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, if he will publish a description of spending under the heading British Energy Liabilities.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
As a result of the restructuring of British Energy (BE) in January 2005, the Government assists BE (now EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Limited) in meeting its contractual historic fuel liabilities. It is forecast that payments relating to this liability will be made up until 2029, as set out in the waste processing contracts agreed between BE, British Nuclear Fuels Limited and the Department.
Asked by: Rebecca Long Bailey (Labour - Salford and Eccles)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row 10 of the table on page 35 of the BEIS 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, if he will publish a description of spending under the heading Better Regulation.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The breakdown of expenditure included under Better Regulation Resource DEL is as shown in the following table: -
| £m |
Office for Product Safety and Standards | 5.0 |
Better Regulation Executive | 3.4 |
Total (Better Regulation) | 8.4 |
Asked by: Rebecca Long Bailey (Labour - Salford and Eccles)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row 24 of the table on page 36 of the BEIS 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, if he will publish a list of all programmes funded under the heading Capability including those under Other Programmes.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The programmes included under Capability Resource DEL are as follows: -