Asked by: Andrew Selous (Conservative - South West Bedfordshire)
Question to the Wales Office:
What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support offshore wind in Wales.
Answered by James Davies
Floating offshore wind will create thousands of high-quality jobs in Wales, drive economic growth and help us reach our net zero and energy security ambitions.
I will continue to work with colleagues across Government and The Crown Estate as they progress plans to bring forward 4 Gigawatts of projects in the Celtic Sea by 2035.
Asked by: Andrew Selous (Conservative - South West Bedfordshire)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether his Department operates a ban the box employment policy in respect of ex-offender job applicants with unspent convictions; and how many employees of his Department have unspent convictions.
Answered by Guto Bebb
The Wales Office is not an employer in its own right and most staff are employed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).
I refer the hon Member to the reply given by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Prisons, Probation, Rehabilitation & Sentencing on 16 February 2017 (UIN 60212).