Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what representations he has made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on implementing the Transferable Tax History mechanism in the 2018-19 financial year.
Answered by Claire Perry
My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my rt. hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer regularly meet to discuss a range of issues, including the oil and gas industry. The Government will publish draft legislation on Transferable Tax History shortly.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it his policy to use energy policy to boost employment in Scotland.
Answered by Claire Perry
Our policy is to ensure that the UK has safe, secure and low carbon supplies of energy. In line with our Industrial Strategy, as our energy industry develops, we expect to see job opportunities created across the UK.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with (a) the Scottish Government and (b) representatives of industry in Scotland on protecting the Scottish steel sector from forthcoming increases in US tariffs.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
We are in constant contact with the steel industry on this issue, indeed Minsters from the Department of Business Energy & Industrial Strategy, together with Ministers from the Department for International Trade last met the steel companies impacted on 5 June. We have also convened a Steel Council meeting on 18 June to discuss this further and the Scottish Government has been invited to attend.
Ministers are in regular contact with the Scottish Government on a range of issues and my rt. Hon Friend the Minister of State for International Trade has spoken and written to Keith Brown MSP, Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work since tariffs were put in place on 1 June on this important issue. Alongside this, BEIS and DIT officials have been in regular contact with officials from the Welsh and Scottish Governments to ensure that they have been kept fully abreast of these developments over the last year.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on how many households by Scottish parliamentary constituency accessed green deal finance through Home Energy Lifestyle Management Systems.
Answered by Claire Perry
Since the start of the Green Deal, the following number of households have received Green Deal plans provided by Home Energy Lifestyle Management Systems in Scotland by constituency:
Households that have received Green Deal plans provided by Home Energy Lifestyle Management Systems (HELMS)
Constituency | Households receiving HELMS plans | of which plans including photovoltaics |
Aberdeen North | 0 | 0 |
Aberdeen South | 0 | 0 |
Airdrie and Shotts | 87 | 75 |
Angus | 0 | 0 |
Argyll and Bute | 10 | 10 |
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | 90 | 81 |
Banff and Buchan | 0 | 0 |
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | 18 | 16 |
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | 0 | 0 |
Central Ayrshire | 167 | 149 |
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | 111 | 100 |
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | 223 | 214 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 0 |
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Dundee East | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Dundee West | 8 | 1-4 |
Dunfermline and West Fife | 32 | 30 |
East Dunbartonshire | 40 | 31 |
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | 233 | 207 |
East Lothian | 21 | 21 |
East Renfrewshire | 32 | 25 |
Edinburgh East | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Edinburgh North and Leith | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Edinburgh South | 17 | 16 |
Edinburgh South West | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Edinburgh West | 18 | 17 |
Na h-Eileanan an Iar | 0 | 0 |
Falkirk | 70 | 69 |
Glasgow Central | 6 | 6 |
Glasgow East | 74 | 61 |
Glasgow North | 15 | 14 |
Glasgow North East | 124 | 103 |
Glasgow North West | 15 | 12 |
Glasgow South | 19 | 10 |
Glasgow South West | 36 | 27 |
Glenrothes | 56 | 55 |
Gordon | 0 | 0 |
Inverclyde | 87 | 75 |
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | 0 | 0 |
Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 162 | 146 |
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | 40 | 38 |
Lanark and Hamilton East | 36 | 30 |
Linlithgow and East Falkirk | 57 | 54 |
Livingston | 78 | 74 |
Midlothian | 33 | 31 |
Moray | 0 | 0 |
Motherwell and Wishaw | 71 | 64 |
North Ayrshire and Arran | 96 | 80 |
North East Fife | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Ochil and South Perthshire | 20 | 20 |
Orkney and Shetland | 0 | 0 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire North | 293 | 272 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire South | 88 | 72 |
Perth and North Perthshire | 31 | 30 |
Ross, Skye and Lochaber | 0 | 0 |
Rutherglen and Hamilton West | 252 | 227 |
Stirling | 36 | 33 |
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | 0 | 0 |
West Dunbartonshire | 140 | 131 |
SCOTLAND | 3,054 | 2,742 |
- Note: Numbers greater than zero but less than five have been marked “1-4” as these figures are potentially disclosive and so have been suppressed. In total, these suppressed figures come to: 12 for ‘Households receiving HELMS plans’ and 16 for ‘of which plans including photovoltaics’.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2017 to Question 120003, how many photovoltaics installations through Green Deal plans provided by Home Energy Lifestyle Management Systems there were in each constituency in Scotland.
Answered by Claire Perry
Since the start of the Green Deal, the following number of households have received Green Deal plans provided by Home Energy Lifestyle Management Systems in Scotland by constituency:
Households that have received Green Deal plans provided by Home Energy Lifestyle Management Systems (HELMS)
Constituency | Households receiving HELMS plans | of which plans including photovoltaics |
Aberdeen North | 0 | 0 |
Aberdeen South | 0 | 0 |
Airdrie and Shotts | 87 | 75 |
Angus | 0 | 0 |
Argyll and Bute | 10 | 10 |
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | 90 | 81 |
Banff and Buchan | 0 | 0 |
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | 18 | 16 |
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | 0 | 0 |
Central Ayrshire | 167 | 149 |
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | 111 | 100 |
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | 223 | 214 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 0 |
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Dundee East | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Dundee West | 8 | 1-4 |
Dunfermline and West Fife | 32 | 30 |
East Dunbartonshire | 40 | 31 |
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | 233 | 207 |
East Lothian | 21 | 21 |
East Renfrewshire | 32 | 25 |
Edinburgh East | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Edinburgh North and Leith | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Edinburgh South | 17 | 16 |
Edinburgh South West | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Edinburgh West | 18 | 17 |
Na h-Eileanan an Iar | 0 | 0 |
Falkirk | 70 | 69 |
Glasgow Central | 6 | 6 |
Glasgow East | 74 | 61 |
Glasgow North | 15 | 14 |
Glasgow North East | 124 | 103 |
Glasgow North West | 15 | 12 |
Glasgow South | 19 | 10 |
Glasgow South West | 36 | 27 |
Glenrothes | 56 | 55 |
Gordon | 0 | 0 |
Inverclyde | 87 | 75 |
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | 0 | 0 |
Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 162 | 146 |
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | 40 | 38 |
Lanark and Hamilton East | 36 | 30 |
Linlithgow and East Falkirk | 57 | 54 |
Livingston | 78 | 74 |
Midlothian | 33 | 31 |
Moray | 0 | 0 |
Motherwell and Wishaw | 71 | 64 |
North Ayrshire and Arran | 96 | 80 |
North East Fife | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Ochil and South Perthshire | 20 | 20 |
Orkney and Shetland | 0 | 0 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire North | 293 | 272 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire South | 88 | 72 |
Perth and North Perthshire | 31 | 30 |
Ross, Skye and Lochaber | 0 | 0 |
Rutherglen and Hamilton West | 252 | 227 |
Stirling | 36 | 33 |
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | 0 | 0 |
West Dunbartonshire | 140 | 131 |
SCOTLAND | 3,054 | 2,742 |
- Note: Numbers greater than zero but less than five have been marked “1-4” as these figures are potentially disclosive and so have been suppressed. In total, these suppressed figures come to: 12 for ‘Households receiving HELMS plans’ and 16 for ‘of which plans including photovoltaics’.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households in Paisley and Renfrewshire have accessed green deal finance through Home Energy Lifestyle Management Systems.
Answered by Claire Perry
Since the start of the Green Deal, 381 households in Paisley and Renfrewshire have accessed Green Deal finance through Home Energy Lifestyle Management Systems.
By constituency, this breaks down as 293 households in Paisley and Renfrewshire North and 88 households in Paisley and Renfrewshire South.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2017 to Question 120003, how many photovoltaics installations through Green Deal plans provided by Home Energy Lifestyle Management Systems were undertaken in the Paisley and Renfrewshire North constituency.
Answered by Claire Perry
Since the start of the Green Deal, 272 photovoltaics installations were undertaken in the Paisley and Renfrewshire North constituency through Green Deal plans provided by Home Energy Lifestyle Management Systems.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for UK Erasmus students, lecturers and research fellows in the event of the UK voting to leave the EU.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
Over 200,000 British Students have been able to study abroad on the Erasmus programme. Access to this programme is just one of the many reasons why the Government believes we are safer, stronger and better off inside a reformed EU.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department has spent on debt collection agencies in each of the last seven years.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
The core Department has spent £0 on debt collection agencies in the last seven years.
Asked by: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with how many debt collection agencies his Department has a contract.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
The core Department has no direct contracts with debt collection agencies.