Tag: Clive Lewis

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Clive Lewis on 2016-01-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many police officers of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary she estimates will be deployed in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-19 and (e) 2019-20.

Andrea Leadsom

Estimates of Civil Nuclear Constabulary deployment fluctuate depending on the forecast levels of protection needed for sites and materials in transit. As sites move to decommissioning the numbers of officers will fall, and will conversely increase as any new nuclear facilities come on line.

Current deployment figures provided by the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and estimates for deployed officer numbers in future years are below. These figures are for operational officers and Special Envoy Groups (Civil Nuclear Constabulary Officers charged with protecting nuclear material in transit). Figures do not include officers in training, dog handling, or administration.

Financial year	2015-2016	2016-2017	2017-2018	2018-2019	2019-2020
Operationally deployed officer number	1113	1118	1037	987	931

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Clive Lewis on 2016-05-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what her policy is on her Department’s April 2014 Solar Strategy document.

Andrea Leadsom

Solar is a UK success story: since the previous Government’s April 2014 Solar Strategy was published, we’ve more than doubled the capacity of UK solar, and industry expect that we have already exceeded the forecast of 10GW by 2020 made in that document.

However, the position of this Government is clear: we can only expect bill payers to support low carbon power if costs are controlled; subsidy should be temporary, not part of a permanent business model; and as costs come down, as they have for solar, so should support.

We are encouraged by the way the solar industry is responding to the policy changes we have made in order to control costs: deployment of solar under the revised FIT scheme continues and several developers are putting together models to encourage their customers to install solar without subsidy – the models needed to create a sustainable sector for years to come.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Clive Lewis on 2016-06-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2016 to Question 39039, whether she will place the results of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary May 2015 Wellbeing Survey in the Library.

Andrea Leadsom

The Civil Nuclear Constabulary May 2015 Wellbeing Survey is a document owned by the Civil Nuclear Constabulary. It’s a matter for the CNC whether to publish the survey.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Clive Lewis on 2016-03-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions her Department has had with the EU institutions on the (a) level of VAT on energy saving materials and (b) European Commission’s VAT Action Plan.

Andrea Leadsom

Tax matters, decisions and discussions on VAT are a matter for HM Treasury. The Department has been in regular contact with HM Treasury regarding the consultation on changes to the application of VAT on energy saving materials.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Clive Lewis on 2016-05-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when the Government plans to publish its response to the December 2015 HM Revenue and Customs’ consultation on increasing VAT for domestic solar.

Andrea Leadsom

The UK has applied a reduced rate on 11 different types of energy saving materials since 2001. That remains in place and remains unchanged.

HMRC are currently considering the responses to their consultation on energy saving materials and they will respond in due course.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Clive Lewis on 2016-09-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many serving personnel will return from Germany as part of the planned rebasing in each year to 2020.

Mike Penning

The number of serving personnel that will return from Germany as part of the planned rebasing in each year to 2020 is shown below.

Year	Number of service personnel
2016	1,270
2017	120
2018	0
2019	4,000
2020	20 (drawdown)

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Clive Lewis on 2015-10-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether UK armed forces personnel deploying on Operation SHADER include Special Forces.

Penny Mordaunt

It is the longstanding policy of the Government not to comment on Special Forces.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Clive Lewis on 2016-03-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions her Department has had with HM Treasury on the level of VAT on energy saving materials.

Andrea Leadsom

Decisions on VAT are led by HM Treasury, and the Department has been in regular contact with them regarding the consultation on changes to the application of VAT on energy saving materials.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Clive Lewis on 2016-05-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who have been reassessed to remain in the support group of employment support allowance have medical conditions that are not expected to improve.

Priti Patel

Between October 2008 and September 2015 a total of 38,100 people in the Support Group have been reassessed and found to still be eligible for Employment and Support Allowance, and to remain in the Support Group, and were also found to either be terminally ill or had a prognosis of “in the longer term”, suggesting that their conditions are not expected to improve in the short term.

Source: Data is derived from administrative data held by the DWP and assessment data provided by Atos and the Centre for Health and Disability Assessments.

Notes:

1. Please note that the figure supplied is derived from unpublished information and has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution.
2. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Clive Lewis on 2016-09-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the potential cost of terminating and re-tendering the Carillion Amey housing contract.

Mark Lancaster

The Ministry of Defence has put in place a strategy to provide an alternative solution should CarillionAmey fail to sustain performance. The Department continues to assess CarillionAmey’s performance to determine whether the implementation of this strategy is necessary.

I will be meeting senior CarillionAmey staff in September to hold them to account for their performance.