Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support his Department provides to local authorities to increase the roll-out of charging points for electric vehicles.
Answered by Claire Perry
The Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) ‘On-street Residential Scheme’ is providing up to £2.5m for Local Authorities to fund the installation of chargepoints in residential streets where homeowners have no access to off-street parking. £22.9m is being provided to Local Authorities for electric vehicle infrastructure through OLEV’s ‘Go Ultra Low Cities’ scheme and a further £14m through their ultra low emission taxis scheme.
Between 2010 and 2014 more than 6400 chargepoints were installed in 8 local authority regions though the Plugged in Places support scheme. Between 2013 and 2015, following a competitive bidding process open to all UK Local Authorities, more than 580 fast chargepoints and 250 rapid chargepoints were installed under the National Infrastructure Grant Schemes.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Delyn of 10 January 2017 on construction industry blacklisting which sought a response to a letter from the right hon. Member for Delyn transferred to his Department by the Prime Minister on 28 October 2016.
Answered by Margot James
A reply was sent to the Rt Hon Member on 22 February 2017.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to consult on the recommendations of the Hendry review into tidal lagoons before a decision on the future development of such lagoons is taken.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Government is grateful for the hard work that has gone into the Review, and will now consider this report as part of the evidence base to determine whether this technology could play a cost effective role in the UK’s energy mix. The Government will respond to the Hendry Review report in due course.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
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 his oral contribution of 8 November 2016, Official Report, column 1395, on the Royal Bank of Scotland, when he plans to write to the right hon. Member for Delyn.
Answered by Margot James
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State wrote to the right hon. Member for Delyn on 28 November.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assistance she plans to provide for the development of tidal stream power technology.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
That the UK has deployed the world’s first commercial scale tidal stream turbine MCT SeaGen, a 1.2MW project.
The world’s first multi-turbine tidal stream array, MeyGen 1A, received £10m in DECC innovation funding and will be deployed in the UK this year.
We are looking at what more we can do to support these developing technologies.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the average hourly earnings of (a) female, (b) male, (c) full-time and (d) part-time employees of his Department were in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
Average earnings are published by the Office for National Statistics, for all departments on an annual basis. The latest publication date was 8 October 2015. Breaking these figures down to an hourly basis could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Detailed breakdowns of mean and median salaries for female, male, full time and part time staff are contained in the Civil Service Statistics Statistical Bulletin Tables available here:
2011: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-229310
2012: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-279335
2013: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-319802
2014: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-375368
2015: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-414427
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average hourly earnings of (a) female, (b) male, (c) full-time and (d) part-time employees of her Department were in each of the last five years.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The average hourly earnings of (a) female, (b) male, (c) full-time and (d) part-time employees of DECC for each of the last five years are set out in the table below:
Year | Average hourly earnings (£) | |||
Female | Male | Full-time | Part-time | |
2011 | 23.80 | 25.80 | 24.70 | 25.70 |
2012 | 23.80 | 25.80 | 24.70 | 26.00 |
2013 | 22.80 | 25.80 | 24.30 | 25.40 |
2014 | 23.30 | 25.50 | 24.40 | 25.40 |
2015 | 23.20 | 25.70 | 24.30 | 26.80 |