Mentions:
1: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) Last week, we had the launch of Ceramics UK in Parliament. - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I congratulate him on raising the profile and the needs of the ceramics sector. - Speech Link
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Government's policy on the UK Emission Trading Scheme on the (a) economic growth and (b) international competitiveness of the UK ceramics industry.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) incentivises industries to find the most cost-effective solutions to decarbonise, enabling green growth. Industrial participants in the UK ETS, including those in the ceramics sector, are provided with free allocations reducing exposure to the carbon price and mitigating carbon leakage risk.
The Government has guaranteed free allocations at current levels until 2026, and as part of an ongoing review will look to target support more effectively to sectors most at risk of carbon leakage. The Government is consulting on wider carbon leakage mitigations such as a carbon border adjustment mechanism and mandatory product standards.
Mentions:
1: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) Given the success of exempting the ceramics sector from the climate change levy, and the risks of carbon - Speech Link
2: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) Friend is a long-standing champion of the ceramics sector. - Speech Link
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps with her Cabinet colleagues to promote careers in the ceramics manufacturing sector through schools.
Answered by Robert Halfon
High-quality careers information, advice, and guidance is key to helping young people to make informed decisions about their future. This includes the ability to find out about and consider different careers options available, such as in the ceramics manufacturing sector.
Whilst an essential element of careers advice is that it is impartial, the department works with the Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) to support schools and colleges to embed best practice, so that young people are aware of the full range of careers and have access to meaningful encounters with a range of employers and workplaces.
The department funds Careers Hubs, which lead partnerships of secondary schools, colleges, employers, Local Enterprise Partnerships, local authorities, and careers providers to help young people connect closely to local skills and economic needs through a responsive careers education programme. Through this network, schools can make links with employers from a wide range of sectors who are working with schools and colleges to improve careers education to support young people to make informed choices, and to develop the skills they need and employers want.
The CEC can work with business and sector bodies to help them to engage with schools and colleges across England. Sector bodies can register their interest via the CEC at: https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/employers/industry-partnerships/. Individual employers can also register their interest to support schools and colleges through the Enterprise Adviser Network or as a Cornerstone Employer via the CEC’s Employers webpage at: https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/employers/. Cornerstone Employers are a flagship group of employers from a range of sectors that work with networks of schools and colleges to improve careers education and ensure key skills for their sector are understood by teachers and education leaders.
In addition, the National Careers Service, a free, government-funded careers information, advice, and guidance service draws on a range of labour market information to support and guide individuals. The Service website gives customers access to a range of useful digital tools and resources to support them including ‘Explore Careers’ which includes more than 130 industry areas and more than 800 job profiles. These include a range of manufacturing roles, and describe what those roles entail, qualifications, and entry routes.
Mentions:
1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) sectors such as steel and metals in Port Talbot, for example; chemical manufacturers; paper, glass, ceramics - Speech Link
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will take steps with her Cabinet colleagues to ensure that businesses in the UK ceramics industry benefit from adequate (a) local energy network capacity and (b) infrastructure connections.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
The electricity networks infrastructure is regulated to ensure adequate grid capacity through the price control. For the low-voltage electricity network price control, Ofgem has allowed £22.2bn for networks to invest, including £3.1bn for network upgrades to allow for adequate grid capacity to meet anticipated demand
Mar. 31 2024
Source Page: Artist's Resale RightFound: entitles creators (‘authors’) of original works of art (including paintings, engravings, sculpture and ceramics
Mar. 16 2023
Source Page: Classifying ceramics for import and exportFound: Classifying ceramics for import and export
Mentions:
1: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) Also, in the creative subjects, if you have lost a theatre or an arts room where you were doing ceramics - Speech Link
Correspondence Jan. 11 2024
Committee: Environment and Climate Change CommitteeFound: from 2027 applying a carbon price to imported goods from the following sectors: aluminium, cement, ceramics