Asked by: Nia Griffith (Labour - Llanelli)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Environment and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Defence Procurement of 9 July 2018, on Leaving the EU: Defence and Military Aerospace Industry, Official Report, column 694, how many civil servants are part of the cross-departmental group; and from which departments those civil servants are drawn.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
A cross-Departmental steering group has been established to oversee the work to develop options for a UK GNSS. The steering group comprises 11 officials from the UK Space Agency, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Infrastructure and Projects Authority.
Asked by: Nia Griffith (Labour - Llanelli)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when she expects the Government's review of the case for the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon to be completed.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The timeframe depends on a number of factors, many of which would be outside the control of the Department. Talks between Government and the developer are on-going and will be fed into the independent review of tidal lagoons for consideration. The independent review will be completed as soon as possible.