Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of the workforce was paid at least the living wage in (a) Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency, (b) South Lanarkshire, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK in each of the last five years.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many start-up loans have been awarded since the introduction of that scheme in (a) Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency, (b) South Lanarkshire, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK; and what the total value is of those loans.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Set out below are the number and value of Start Up Loans awarded for the UK, Scotland, South Lanarkshire and the Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency (up to the 28th February 2015).
| Loans awarded | Value |
Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency | 30 | £96,365.09 |
South Lanarkshire | 70 | £208,891.41 |
Scotland | 1,193 | £4,408,809 |
UK | 27,034 | £140,814,749 |
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the oral Answer of 19 March 2015 from the Minister of State for Energy, when he plans to publish the advice he has received on the effect on security of supply of the potential closure of Longannet.
Answered by Matt Hancock
National Grid expects the market to provide enough generation to meet demand and maintain system stability in Scotland – even if one or more major fossil fuelled plant closes. The system operator and transmission owners in Scotland (National Grid, Scottish Power Transmission and Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission) have stress tested scenarios in which Longannet and other Scottish fossil fuelled generators closed. National Grid has the tools to secure supplies under even the toughest system conditions, and the network is resilient against 1 in 600 year risks.
National Grid has published the advice that it provided to the Secretary of State and the Scottish government on this issue on their website this week. This information contains a description of the scenarios that have been tested, ‘A day in the life’ which shows that Scottish demand was secure on a low wind, high demand day, even if two large fossil fuelled power stations had not been available and an open letter providing reassurance on the status of electricity supply in Scotland:
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the average cost to domestic consumers per kWh of gas in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) each English region in each year since 2010.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Regional gas bills, based on fixed consumption levels are published in Quarterly Energy Prices, table 2.3.3 and table 2.3.4:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/annual-domestic-energy-price-statistics
Annual UK gas prices by PES (Public Electricity Supply) Region in pence kWh
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |
East Midlands | 3.74 | 4.06 | 4.52 | 4.78 | 4.92 |
Eastern | 3.73 | 4.08 | 4.55 | 4.84 | 5.00 |
London | 3.83 | 4.20 | 4.67 | 4.97 | 5.21 |
Merseyside & North Wales | 3.78 | 4.11 | 4.55 | 4.87 | 5.04 |
North East | 3.74 | 4.08 | 4.50 | 4.80 | 4.92 |
North Scotland | 3.69 | 4.06 | 4.51 | 4.75 | 4.98 |
North West | 3.78 | 4.11 | 4.55 | 4.83 | 4.99 |
South East | 3.78 | 4.14 | 4.61 | 4.87 | 5.04 |
South Scotland | 3.69 | 4.06 | 4.51 | 4.80 | 4.97 |
South Wales | 3.80 | 4.13 | 4.61 | 4.87 | 5.05 |
South West | 3.76 | 4.10 | 4.59 | 4.86 | 4.97 |
Southern | 3.75 | 4.13 | 4.61 | 4.93 | 5.13 |
West Midlands | 3.79 | 4.15 | 4.61 | 4.91 | 5.03 |
Yorkshire | 3.76 | 4.11 | 4.52 | 4.81 | 4.98 |
Great Britain | 3.76 | 4.11 | 4.57 | 4.86 | 5.02 |
Data above are based on a fixed annual consumption of 15,000kWh in each year.
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the average cost to domestic consumers per kWh of electricity in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) each English region in each year since 2010.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Regional electricity bills, based on fixed consumption levels are published in Quarterly Energy Prices, table 2.2.3 and table 2.2.4:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/annual-domestic-energy-price-statistics.
Annual UK electricity prices by PES (Public Electricity Supply) Region in pence kWh
Region | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
East Midlands | 12.0 | 13.3 | 13.9 | 14.7 | 14.9 |
Eastern | 12.1 | 13.3 | 13.9 | 14.8 | 14.9 |
London | 12.7 | 13.5 | 14.2 | 15.1 | 15.5 |
Merseyside & North Wales | 12.8 | 14.1 | 14.9 | 16.0 | 16.7 |
North East | 12.2 | 13.1 | 14.0 | 15.1 | 15.5 |
North Scotland | 13.1 | 13.8 | 14.9 | 16.2 | 16.8 |
North West | 11.9 | 13.4 | 14.2 | 15.2 | 15.7 |
South East | 12.2 | 13.1 | 13.8 | 14.9 | 15.3 |
South Scotland | 12.9 | 13.8 | 14.3 | 15.2 | 15.2 |
South Wales | 13.3 | 14.1 | 15.0 | 15.9 | 16.4 |
South West | 12.9 | 14.0 | 14.8 | 15.8 | 16.3 |
Southern | 12.7 | 13.3 | 14.0 | 15.1 | 15.4 |
West Midlands | 12.2 | 13.4 | 14.2 | 15.1 | 15.5 |
Yorkshire | 11.9 | 13.1 | 14.0 | 14.9 | 15.3 |
United Kingdom | 12.5 | 13.5 | 14.3 | 15.2 | 15.6 |
Data above are based on a fixed annual consumption of 3,800kWh in each year.
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of units that secured a capacity agreement in the first auctions of the capacity market were based in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) England; and how many units of what capacity were so secured.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Capacity Market register does not publish the geographic location of Capacity Market Units (CMUs). However based on analysis of the CMUs registered, the following proportions of CMU location are assumed:
(a) Scotland 42 CMUs (14%) and 4016.847 MW (8%)
(b) Wales 46 CMUs (15%) and 8307.883 MW (17%)
(c) England 215 CMUs (70%) and 36900.122 MW (75%)
(d) Unknown 3 CMUs (1%) and 34.086 MW (0%)
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the Rate of Return on Equity for each of the Distribution Network Operators under Distribution Price Control Review 5.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Ofgem are responsible for regulating the electricity Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) and the setting of the price control review. Ofgem’s latest estimate for the Rate of Return on Equity for each of the DNOs is in the attached table which covers the years 2010-11 to 2013-14. The last year of Distribution Price Control Review 5 (2014-15) is still on-going.
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit sanctions were applied to claimants resident in (a) Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency, (b) South Lanarkshire, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK in each month since July 2010.
Answered by Esther McVey - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
The available information is published at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/
Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm
Information for Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Social Development. Northern Ireland statistics can be found at:
http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate has been made of the number of (a) Fast Reserve, (b) Short Term Operating Reserve and (c) BM Start up Reserve services triggered by National Grid from units in (i) England, (ii) Scotland and (iii) Wales in each month since July 2010.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Department does not hold this information. It is the responsibility of National Grid as System Operator to procure enough reserve for the system overall, and procure any system services which might be required for real-time balancing of the system. Further details on these services can be found at:
http://www2.nationalgrid.com/uk/services/balancing-services/.
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of personal independence payment claims were disallowed pre-referral to the assessment providers in (a) Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency, (b) South Lanarkshire, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK in each month since April 2013; and how many such claims were disallowed due to the claimant not returning the Part 2 form within the time limit in each of those areas in each of those months.
Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport
For Great Britain figures relating to the number of claims disallowed pre-referral to the assessment, please refer to the Personal Independence Payment ad hoc statistical release published on 28th January 2015.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-new-claims-ad-hoc-statistics
Please also refer to the following PQ response which shows what proportion of such claims are disallowed due to the claimant not returning the Part 2 form within the time limit.
The Department is intending on releasing Parliamentary Constituency, Local Authority and Regional level data on the number of claims disallowed pre-referral to the assessment provider and how many were disallowed due to the claimant not returning the Part 2 form within the time limit in the future.