Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring automotive manufacturers to make a fixed proportion of the vehicles they make available for sale electric.
Answered by Michael Ellis
EU regulations set mandatory limits on the CO2 emissions of new cars and vans registered in the UK. Negotiations on new targets for 2025 and 2030 have recently concluded and were informed by a European Commission impact assessment of mechanisms to encourage manufacturers to produce electric vehicles, including setting a sales mandate. The assessments are available https://ec.europa.eu/clima/sites/clima/files/transport/vehicles/docs/swd_2017_650_p1_en.pdf and https://ec.europa.eu/clima/sites/clima/files/transport/vehicles/docs/swd_2017_650_p2_en.pdf
Asked by: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the new Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund of £4.7 billion, recently allocated to the Research Councils, they estimate will go to the cultural and creative industries; and what proportion of the first round of spending will be allocated to the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
We are increasing research and development investment by £4.7 billion over the period 2017-18 to 2020-21. As part of this, the new Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) will help capitalise on our strengths in science and innovation.
In the 2017 Budget we announced an initial investment of £270 million in 2017-18 for the ISCF to kick start the development of disruptive technologies which have the potential to transform the UK economy. The first wave of investments will include funding challenges to develop batteries to power the next generation of electric vehicles, robotics systems for hazardous environments, and new medicine manufacturing technologies.
Details of further ICSF investments for 2017-18 will follow in due course.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the value of exports to the EU from Welsh (a) agriculture, (b) aerospace, (c) construction, (d) electronics, (e) manufacturing, (f) renewable energy, (g) services, (h) textile and (i) fishing industries was in the last six years.
Answered by Alun Cairns
The information below detail the value of exports to the EU for all industries in Wales at Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) levels 1 & 2 in Quarter 3 2016. Due to recent revisions in HMRC methods, data before this currently uses the previous methodology. My officials have been in contact with HMRC and have been told the historic figures using the new methods will be published shortly.
SITC 1 Level
Exports to the EU Quarter 3 2016 | (£000’s) |
0 - Food & live animals | 59568 |
1 - Beverages & tobacco | 7277 |
2 - Crude materials, inedible, except fuels | 13573 |
3 - Mineral fuels, lubricants & related materials | 181245 |
4 - Animal & vegetable oils, fats & waxes | 1013 |
5 - Chemicals & related products, nes | 220020 |
6 - Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material | 293702 |
7 - Machinery & transport equipment | 984245 |
8 - Miscellaneous manufactured articles | 165824 |
9 - Commodities/transactions not class'd elsewhere in SITC | 18698 |
SITC 2 Level
Exports to the EU Quarter 3 2016 | (£000’s) |
00 - Live animals other than animals of division 03 | 616 |
01 - Meat & meat preparations | 19227 |
02 - Dairy products & birds' eggs | 9181 |
03 - Fish, crustaceans, molluscs & aq.inverts & preps thereof | 7593 |
04 - Cereals & cereal preparations | 8812 |
05 - Vegetables & fruit | 1715 |
06 - Sugar, sugar preparations & honey | 603 |
07 - Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices & manufactures thereof | 2009 |
08 - Feeding stuff for animals (not inc.unmilled cereals) | 2484 |
09 - Miscellaneous edible products & preparations | 7328 |
11 - Beverages | 7272 |
12 - Tobacco & tobacco manufactures | 5 |
21 - Hides, skins & furskins, raw | 486 |
22 - Oil seeds & oleaginous fruits | 8 |
23 - Crude rubber (including synthetic & reclaimed) | 129 |
24 - Cork & wood | 309 |
25 - Pulp & waste paper | 221 |
26 - Textile fibres not manufactured & their waste etc | 583 |
27 - Crude fertilizers & crude minerals (exc fuels etc) | 310 |
28 - Metalliferous ores & metal scrap | 10566 |
29 - Crude animal & vegetable materials n.e.s. | 961 |
32 - Coal, coke & briquettes | 1209 |
33 - Petroleum, petroleum products & related materials | 172034 |
34 - Gas, natural & manufactured | 5041 |
35 - Electric current | 2961 |
41 - Animal oils & fats | 611 |
42 - Fixed vegetable fats & oils, crude, refined, fractionated | 301 |
43 - Animal or vegetable fats & oils, processed, & waxes | 101 |
51 - Organic chemicals | 34390 |
52 - Inorganic chemicals | 2038 |
53 - Dyeing, tanning & colouring materials | 18593 |
54 - Medicinal & pharmaceutical products | 56479 |
55 - Essential oils & perfume materials; toilet preps etc | 20046 |
56 - Fertilizers (other than those of group 272) | 131 |
57 - Plastics in primary forms | 34570 |
58 - Plastics in non-primary forms | 28120 |
59 - Chemical materials & products n.e.s. | 25653 |
61 - Leather, leather manufactures n.e.s & dressed furskins | 131 |
62 - Rubber manufactures n.e.s. | 27340 |
63 - Cork & wood manufactures (excluding furniture) | 1113 |
64 - Paper, paperboard & manufactures thereof | 29447 |
65 - Textile yarn, fabrics, made up articles etc | 8493 |
66 - Non-metallic mineral manufactures n.e.s. | 17717 |
67 - Iron & steel | 60142 |
68 - Non-ferrous metals | 100491 |
69 - Manufactures of metal n.e.s. | 48828 |
71 - Power generating machinery & equipment | 13727 |
72 - Machinery specialized for particular industries | 19750 |
73 - Metalworking machinery | 1757 |
74 - General industrial machinery & eqp. & machine pt.n.e.s. | 31429 |
75 - Office machines & adp machines | 36220 |
76 - Telecomms & sound recording & reproducing app. & eqp. | 17308 |
77 - Ele machinery, app & appliances & ele pt thereof n.e.s. | 66903 |
78 - Road vehicles (including air cushion vehicles) | 110982 |
79 - Other transport equipment | 686169 |
81 - P/fab buildings; sanit., plumbing, heating &lighting fixt. | 3929 |
82 - Furniture & parts thereof; bedding, mattresses etc | 25936 |
83 - Travel goods, handbags & similar containers | 2240 |
84 - Articles of apparel & clothing accessories | 18614 |
85 - Footwear | 6234 |
87 - Professional, scientific & controlling ins & app n.e.s. | 21485 |
88 - Photographic & optical goods, n.e.s.; watches & clocks | 7758 |
89 - Miscellaneous manufactured articles n.e.s. | 79628 |
93 - Special transactions and commodities not classified according to kind | 17352 |
96 - Coin (other than gold coin), not being of legal tender | 0 |
98 - Military arms and ammunition | 1346 |