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Renewable Energy
Susan Kramer:
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will break down by area of planned expenditure the provision for (a) new and renewable sources of energy and (b) capital grants to the private sector in relation to renewable energy recorded under function D on page 185 of his Department's Departmental Report 2006, Cm 6826. [144785]
Mr. Hutton
[holding answer 25 June 2007]: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member before Prorogation.
Alan Duncan:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what estimate his Department has made of the total proportion of UK (a) electricity and (b) energy which will come from renewable sources by (i) 2010, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2020. [144918]
Mr. Hutton
[holding answer 25 June 2007]: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member before Prorogation.
Renewable Energy: Standards
John McDonnell:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform if he will make it his policy (a) to set targets in the UK and (b) to support the setting of targets in EU member states to reach the EU target of 20 per cent. of energy from renewable sources by 2020 through increases in renewable energy capacity; if he will make it his policy not to use or support targets based on tradable certificates; and if he will make a statement. [161790]
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Malcolm Wicks:
In common with other EU Governments, we agreed at this year's Spring European Council to the setting of national targets derived from the overall EU renewables target. We have not yet come to a firm position on whether tradable certificates should play a part in enabling those targets to be met.
Royal Mail: Government Assistance
Susan Kramer:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform pursuant to the answer of 25 June 2007, Official Report, column 146W, on Royal Mail: Government assistance, in which town or city the advisers from Deloitte were based. [147611]
Mr. Hutton
[holding answer 4 July 2007]: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member before Prorogation.
Trade Unions: Government Assistance
Mrs. May:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulator Reform what Government grants were available to trade unions; and how much was paid out through such schemes in each year between 1997 and 2006, broken down by scheme and recipient. [134183]
Mr. McFadden:
Since 1997 the Government have had three strategic funds to encourage better industrial relations and increase modern working practices. The Partnership at Work Fund and the Strategic Partnership fund were available to both companies and unions. The following tables give (a) the commitments to unions under the Partnership at Work Fund and, (b) actual payments to unions under the Strategic Partnership Fund and the Union Modernisation Fund.
(a) Funds committed to unions 2000-03 |
Union | Year in which commitment made | Amount given (£) | Fund |
AEEU
|
2000
|
49,912
|
Partnership Fund(1)
|
Unison
|
2000
|
32,500
|
Partnership Fund
|
Community and Youth Workers Union
|
2000
|
50,000
|
Partnership Fund
|
Unison
|
2000
|
13,440
|
Partnership Fund
|
TUC
|
2000
|
14,450
|
Partnership Fund
|
TUC
|
2000
|
24,300
|
Partnership Fund
|
Scottish TUC
|
2000
|
37,575
|
Partnership Fund
|
MSF
|
2000
|
20,000
|
Partnership Fund
|
Royal College of Midwives
|
2000
|
34,000
|
Partnership Fund
|
MSF
|
2000
|
30,000
|
Partnership Fund
|
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MSF
|
2000
|
26,405
|
Partnership fund
|
Unison
|
2000
|
50,000
|
Partnership fond
|
| | | |
TGWU
|
2001
|
50,000
|
Partnership Fund
|
Unison
|
2001
|
14,000
|
Partnership Fund
|
| | | |
Numast
|
2002
|
36,800
|
Partnership Fund
|
Amicus
|
2002
|
47,360
|
Partnership fund
|
TUC
|
2002
|
43,015
|
Partnership Fund
|
TGWU
|
2002
|
42,276
|
Partnership Fund
|
Royal College of Nursing
|
2002
|
18,650
|
Partnership Fund
|
| | | |
Unison
|
2003
|
50,000
|
Partnership Fund
|
(1) The Partnership at Work Fund was a Government grant scheme established by the DTI created in 1999 to encourage the development of industrial relations by encouraging employers and employees to work together effectively. The Partnership at Work Fund supported partnership projects within individual organisations. The fund is now closed.
|
(b) Funds paid to unions |
Union | Amount (£) | Fund |
Year ended 31 March 2005
| | |
TUC
|
26,472
|
Strategic Partnership Fund(1)
|
GPMU
|
3,880
|
Strategic Partnership Fund
|
GMB
|
96,871
|
Strategic Partnership Fund
|
Amicus
|
37,592
|
Strategic Partnership Fund
|
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TUC
|
12,544
|
Strategic Partnership Fund
|
UCATT
|
61,045
|
Strategic Partnership Fund
|
| | |
Year ended 31 March 2006
| | |
TUC
|
21,512
|
Strategic Partnership Fund
|
GMB
|
108,000
|
Strategic Partnership Fund
|
Amicus
|
261,381
|
Strategic Partnership Fund
|
TUC
|
34,270
|
Strategic Partnership Fund
|
UCATT
|
69,898
|
Strategic Partnership Fund
|
| | |
Year ended 31 March 2007
| | |
GMB
|
15,000
|
Strategic Partnership Fund
|
TUC
|
68,000
|
Strategic Partnership Fund
|
UCATT
|
4,443
|
Strategic Partnership Fund
|
GMB
|
23,340.53
|
Union Modernisation Fund(2)
|
Wales TUC
|
12,252.64
|
Union Modernisation Fund
|
National Union of Teachers
|
7,377.84
|
Union Modernisation Fund
|
Royal College of Midwives
|
43,329.35
|
Union Modernisation Fund
|
Union of Finance Staff
|
7,083.30
|
Union Modernisation Fund
|
United Road Transport Union
|
24,330.00
|
Union Modernisation Fund
|
Community and District Nursing Association
|
8,125.65
|
Union Modernisation Fund
|
British Dental Association
|
6,047.75
|
Union Modernisation Fund
|
Connect
|
28,647.63
|
Union Modernisation Fund
|
USDAW
|
104,011.73
|
Union Modernisation Fund
|
National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
|
32,489.00
|
Union Modernisation Fund
|
National Union of Journalists
|
11,475.34
|
Union Modernisation Fund
|
ASLEF
|
13,232.25
|
Union Modernisation Fund
|
General Federation of Trade Unions
|
23,284.48
|
Union Modernisation Fund
|
Portman Group Staff Association
|
6,070.70
|
Union Modernisation Fund
|
(1) Strategic Partnership projects reach out beyond single company projects to assess sectoral and regional issues.
(2) The Union Modernisation Fund provides financial assistance to independent trade unions and their federations in support of innovative projects, which contribute to, or explore the potential for transformational change in the organisational effectiveness of efficiency of a union or unions, in the light of the changing needs, aspirations and behaviour of workers and employers in the changing UK Labour market.
|
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Trade: Barbados
Mr. Amess:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many officials in his Department work on promoting trade between the United Kingdom and Barbados, broken down by grade; and how many did so in (a) 1983, (b) 1987, (c) 1992, (d) 1997 and (e) each year between 1998 and 2005. [161084]
Mr. Thomas:
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member before Prorogation.