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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Feb 2018
Taylor Review

"The Minister will recall the Government’s awkward embarrassment when they tried to align national insurance for the employed and the self-employed. Can he explain how the Government propose to deal with that outstanding anomaly?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Jan 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Since the aerospace sector requires long-term planning and investment, does the Secretary of State not share my alarm at the threatened takeover of the leading tier 1 supplier GKN by a turnaround company specialising in maximising shareholder returns over five years maximum? Is this not a national security issue?..."
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Written Question
Carbon Emissions
Tuesday 9th January 2018

Asked by: Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat - Twickenham)

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 the Committee on Climate Change on the cost and feasibility of delivering the Clean Growth Strategy.

Answered by Claire Perry

Officials hold regular discussions with the Committee on Climate Change on the delivery of the Clean Growth Strategy and related policies.

Written Question
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Wednesday 27th December 2017

Asked by: Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat - Twickenham)

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 publish a sensitivity analysis setting out emissions reductions in each sector of the economy.

Answered by Claire Perry

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) publishes annual updated energy and emissions projections, which project future energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. These include projections of emissions reductions by sector, and sensitivity to fossil fuel prices and economic growth.

The 2016 energy and emissions projections are the most recent published projections. These are available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2016

The 2017 edition of the energy and emissions projections will be published early next year.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Nov 2017
Industrial Strategy

"I welcome the statement, albeit that it has taken the Government two and a half years to conduct what is, essentially, a rebranding exercise. Does the Secretary of State agree that the essence of improving productivity is skills? If he is going to reverse the absolutely catastrophic decline now occurring …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 Nov 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Does the Minister not agree that the response to the finding that 92% of the bank’s restructuring group’s small business customers were mistreated has been pathetic and is unworthy of a publicly owned institution?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Oct 2017
International Investment

"I welcome the Secretary of State’s recognition of the need to widen the public interest test, but express some disappointment that his definition of it does not appear to include cases where British companies that are fundamental to the science base would be at risk of acquisition, as in the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 16 Oct 2017
Vauxhall (Redundancies)

"When I negotiated in Government alongside the trade unions in the discussions with General Motors to save and then expand the plant, it was clear that the whole business model for Vauxhall car production—and van production at Luton—depended on the common standards in the single market and the common tariff …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 12 Oct 2017
Clean Growth Strategy

"Will the Minister tell us whether the newly privatised Green Investment Bank has fully signed up to the clean growth strategy? If so, how will its business plan be adapted or enlarged as a result?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Sep 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Given the importance of the aerospace sector in manufacturing capacity and the rather non-committal reply to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), will the Government commit themselves to standing very firmly, alongside the Canadian Government, behind Bombardier and its workers in resisting bullying from Boeing and its friends in …..."
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