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Written Question
Newspaper Press: Competition
Tuesday 21st September 2021

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the competitiveness of the newspaper wholesalers market in England.

Answered by Paul Scully

Investigations into competition issues are a matter for the Competition and Markets Authority, the UK’s independent competition authority.


Written Question
Newspaper Press: Competition
Tuesday 21st September 2021

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will hold discussions with the Competition and Markets Authority on increasing competition within the wholesale newspaper suppliers industry.

Answered by Paul Scully

Investigations into competition issues are a matter for the Competition and Markets Authority, the UK’s independent competition authority.


Written Question
Remote Working
Monday 5th October 2020

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to his Answer of 21 September 2020 Question 90945 on Remote Working, whether he plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of providing greater protections for online platform workers using crowd work platforms.

Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

The Government is committed to ensuring we make workplaces fairer by bringing forward a range of measures through the Employment Bill, and this will include considering options for new protections for those in the gig economy.

The Director of Labour Market Enforcement’s 2019-20 strategy also recommended the Government examine the threat to labour hire compliance from online and app-based recruitment businesses. The Government will respond to the 2019-20 strategy in due course.


Written Question
Remote Working
Monday 21st September 2020

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the regulations to protect online platform workers using crowd work platforms.

Answered by Paul Scully

In the Queens’ Speech, we announced we will bring forward an Employment Bill to deliver on a range of Manifesto commitments.

This legislation will make workplaces fairer by introducing new protections for those in the gig economy.

The preparation of an Employment Bill follows recent assessments of modern ways of working. Many of these aspects are complex and so it is only right that we take time to consider how best to achieve change that works for all.

We will bring forward detailed proposals in due course.


Written Question
Gas Fired Power Stations
Tuesday 13th December 2016

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government plans to take to bring forward new gas generation in the event that no new combined cycle gas turbine capacity clears the capacity market auction in December 2016.

Answered by Jesse Norman

In the recent capacity market auction, around 1.5GW of new gas plant cleared, including a new combined cycle gas turbine, a new open cycle gas turbine, and a variety of new smaller scale, flexible gas resources.


Written Question
Gas Fired Power Stations
Tuesday 13th December 2016

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate the Government has made of the proportion that gas-fired generation will form of the new proposed 14GW of electricity interconnection to be developed by 2023.

Answered by Jesse Norman

The Government has not made an estimate of the proportion of electricity imports on interconnectors that will have been generated by gas-fired generation.

Electricity interconnection connects Great Britain’s energy market to the markets of neighbouring countries, enabling electricity to be traded. It is not possible to trace the precise source of the electricity transported through interconnectors; the electricity that we import will have been produced by the mix of generation technologies connected to the exporting country’s transmission network. The precise generation mix that provides the imported electricity at any point in time will depend on a complex set of factors and, in particular, will vary depending on the characteristics of the exporting market.