Asked by: Carol Monaghan (Scottish National Party - Glasgow North West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it is his Department’s policy to compile a risk register for proposed nuclear power stations.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The Department develops and maintains risk registers with respect to specific major projects and programmes, including across the nuclear portfolio.
Asked by: Carol Monaghan (Scottish National Party - Glasgow North West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it is his policy to use energy policy to increase R&D investment in Scotland.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The Government is committed to investing in science, research and innovation across the UK and across the energy sector. The Government is committed to increasing support for R&D as a key pillar of our Industrial Strategy and have committed to raise total R&D investment to 2.4% of GDP by 2027.
The Department is investing £505m under our Energy Innovation Programme between 2015/16-2020/21, as part of the Government’s wider £2.5bn clean growth innovation activities that will support projects across the UK. Scottish innovators are eligible to bid into competitions under this programme, alongside all constituent parts of the UK.
Asked by: Carol Monaghan (Scottish National Party - Glasgow North West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many senior civil servants (a) are employed and (b) have been employed by his Department and its predecessor Departments in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy regularly publishes its workforce management information, by month, including the numbers of staff in Senior Civil Servant grades. March data has yet to be published and that number is 214. The remaining information for BEIS is available here: www.gov.uk/search?q=BEIS+workforce
Where the information is available for each of its immediate predecessors, the Departments for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Energy and Climate Change, including the numbers of staff in Senior Civil Servant grades, it is available here:
www.gov.uk/search?q=bis+workforce
www.gov.uk/search?q=DECC+workforce
Asked by: Carol Monaghan (Scottish National Party - Glasgow North West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many senior civil servant vacancies there are in his Department.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is currently advertising the following number of senior civil servant vacancies:
SCS PB3 – 1
SCS PB1 – 5.
Asked by: Carol Monaghan (Scottish National Party - Glasgow North West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what value for money assessment the Government has conducted on the Wylfa Newydd nuclear project.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The Government published a value for money assessment for Hinkley Point C at the time of the deal being signed and will carry out a value for money assessment for any future new nuclear project before a final deal is agreed.
The Government will, at the appropriate time, publish this assessment which would set out the criteria used to determine value for money of the financing arrangements.
Asked by: Carol Monaghan (Scottish National Party - Glasgow North West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what criteria the Government will apply when assessing the value for money of any new financing arrangement for new nuclear power sites.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The Government published a value for money assessment for Hinkley Point C at the time of the deal being signed and will carry out a value for money assessment for any future new nuclear project before a final deal is agreed.
The Government will, at the appropriate time, publish this assessment which would set out the criteria used to determine value for money of the financing arrangements.