Asked by: Joanna Cherry (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh South West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
What new support he plans to provide to energy transition projects in Scotland.
Answered by Greg Hands
Our Net Zero Strategy supports well-paid jobs, leverages up to £90 billion of private investment by 2030 across the UK and outlines support for projects in Scotland, including the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund and the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund.
Asked by: Joanna Cherry (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh South West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make it his policy to include the new wage rate recommendations published annually by the Low Pay Commission in calculation of the national living wage.
Answered by Nick Boles
The independent Low Pay Commission will recommend future National Living Wage rates as well as continuing its current role in recommending National Minimum Wage rates.