Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of former miners have had an application for industrial injuries disablement benefits rejected over the last 10 years.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The table below shows the number of assessments by outcome for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) for people whose Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code on which the IIDB claim is based, is ‘Mining and Quarrying’ over the last 10 years from 2013/14 to 2022/23.
| Number | Percentage |
Accepted - payable | 8,450 | 25% |
Accepted - not payable | 4,200 | 12% |
Accepted – no loss of faculty | 0 | 0% |
Disallowed | 19,570 | 57% |
Withdrawn | 490 | 1% |
Not applicable / Unknown | 1,570 | 5% |
Total | 34,290 | 100% |
Individual outcome categories do not sum to total due to rounding.
Information on Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) assessments by decision type and Standard Industrial Classification code can be found on Stat-Xplore.
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Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 19 September 2023 to Question 199543 on Industrial Energy Transformation Fund, what (a) types of companies and (b) sectors are eligible for the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund.
Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
To receive support from the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF), companies will need to evidence that they are carrying out an eligible industrial process at a site. Companies of any type or size may apply as long as they meet the Government's sector eligibility criteria. Eligible sectors for the IETF are as follows:
More information on IETF eligibility can be found here. The Government is currently reviewing sector eligibility rules for Phase 3 of the IETF, which will launch in early 2024.
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, How much of the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund has been allocated to the manufacturing industry in the last 12 months.
Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The £289m Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF) supports companies in the manufacturing sector as well as mining and quarrying, recycling, and data centres. To date, we have allocated funding across five competitive application windows.
Between July 2022 and July 2023, the IETF has allocated £46.6m of funding to the manufacturing sector alone.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley Central)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who previously worked in the coal mining industry have been assessed for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit in each of the last five years.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Information on the number of assessments for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) by Standard Industrial Classification is available on StatXplore in the IIDB Assessments dataset.
The number of people who were assessed for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit over the last 5 years following employment in a Standard Industrial Classification ‘Mining and Quarrying’ occupation is as follows:
2017/18 – 4,110;
2018/19 – 3,170;
2019/20 – 2,890;
2020/21 – 930;
2021/22 – 2,610.
This covers all assessment outcomes, including: accepted payable; accepted not payable; accepted no loss of faculty; disallowed; withdrawn; unknown and not applicable.
Asked by: Mark Jenkinson (Conservative - Workington)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what impact a presumption against issuing any further Hydraulic Fracturing Consents on the basis of potential seismic events may have on (a) sourcing geothermal energy, (b) exploration for lithium and other minerals and (c) other planning consents that may result in seismic activity.
Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Infrastructure Act 2015 set out provisions for ‘associated hydraulic fracturing’ where it is defined as hydraulic fracturing of shale or strata encased in shale for the purposes of searching for or extracting petroleum or natural gas. The presumption against issuing any further Hydraulic Fracturing Consents on the basis of potential seismic events should therefore have no impact on sourcing geothermal energy or the exploration for lithium and other minerals.
The control and mitigation of induced seismicity for deep geothermal projects is based on the British Standard BS 6472-2 (BSI, 2008), which defines limits for acceptable levels of ground vibrations caused by blasting and quarrying, and other local planning authority guidelines for blasting, quarrying, and mining. These thresholds are defined in terms of measured ground velocity rather than seismicity.
Asked by: Mark Jenkinson (Conservative - Workington)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what impact a presumption against issuing any further Hydraulic Fracturing Consents on the basis of potential seismic events may have on (a) sourcing geothermal energy and (b) exploration for lithium and other minerals.
Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Infrastructure Act 2015 set out provisions for ‘associated hydraulic fracturing’ where it is defined as hydraulic fracturing of shale or strata encased in shale for the purposes of searching for or extracting petroleum or natural gas. The presumption against issuing any further Hydraulic Fracturing Consents on the basis of potential seismic events should therefore have no impact on sourcing geothermal energy or the exploration for lithium and other minerals.
The control and mitigation of induced seismicity for deep geothermal projects is based on the British Standard BS 6472-2 (BSI, 2008), which defines limits for acceptable levels of ground vibrations caused by blasting and quarrying, and other local planning authority guidelines for blasting, quarrying, and mining. These thresholds are defined in terms of measured ground velocity rather than seismicity.
Asked by: Mike Penning (Conservative - Hemel Hempstead)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2022 to Question 35899 on Fuels: Prices, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing further financial incentives for switching to cleaner alternatives to red diesel; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Alan Mak - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) (jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The Government announced in the 2020 Budget that it would be removing the entitlement to use red diesel from most sectors from April 2022. These are important long-term reforms, which ensure most businesses that used red diesel prior to April 2022 now pay the same amount of tax as ordinary motorists. This more fairly reflects the harmful emissions produced. These reforms are also designed to incentivise the development and adoption of greener alternative technologies, and improvements in the energy efficiency of vehicles and machinery.
To support the development of alternatives that affected businesses can switch to, the Government is at least doubling the funding provided for energy innovation through the £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. From that portfolio, the Government announced the £40 million Red Diesel Replacement Competition, which will provide grant funding for projects that develop and demonstrate lower carbon, lower cost alternatives to red diesel for the construction, and mining and quarrying sectors. These sectors were chosen because they encompass 62% of the UK’s red diesel use. However, the technologies developed from this programme will also be applicable to other sectors to support decarbonisation, and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is planning a series of dissemination events in the future with industry and other affected sectors to spread awareness about the successes achieved and lessons learned through this programme.
Asked by: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Red Diesel Replacement competition to the metal recycling sector.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The £40 million Red Diesel Replacement (RDR) innovation programme focusses on construction, mining and quarrying sectors, accounting for 63% of UK red-diesel usage. The technologies developed and lessons learned through this programme will also benefit the metals recycling sector and will be disseminated to wider industry. Due to the financial and temporal constraints of the programme, there are no plans to expand the scope of RDR at present.
Other Government support includes:
Asked by: Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central)
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 publish a breakdown of Innovate UK's annual spending by (a) sector, (b) funding stage and (c) technology preparedness level.
Answered by Jane Hunt
Innovate UK’s business awarded grant support by Sector based on their Company House registered Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code (where available):
SIC 2007 Section Description | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Accommodation and Food Service |
|
| £0.34m | £0.86m | £0.06m |
|
Administrative and Support Service | £19.09m | £17.30m | £57.93m | £39.52m | £23.77m | £3.78m |
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing | £4.10m | £4.10m | £39.1m | £8.28m | £2.88m | £1.46m |
Arts, Entertainment and Recreation | £0.12m | £0.44m | £1.65m | £2.29m | £1.38m | £0.15m |
Construction | £2.62m | £4.49m | £7.68m | £8.09m | £1.61m | £0.36m |
Education | £0.33m | £3.18m | £2.12m | £5.81m | £0.70m | £0.79m |
Electricity, Gas etc. | £2.75m | £2.37m | £20.06m | £6.50m | £4.26m | £0.57m |
Financial and Insurance | £1.93m | £0.98m | £4.86m | £9.45m | £6.42m | £0.09m |
Human Health and Social Work | £1.96m | £7.04m | £9.27m | £9.97m | £3.75m | £2.56m |
Information and Communication | £69.90m | £73.02m | £89.01m | £172.27m | £99.32m | £25.08m |
Manufacturing | £313.78m | £318.42m | £221.84m | £361.92m | £241.56m | £32.31m |
Mining and Quarrying | £0.40m | £1.14m | £0.85m | £2.64m | £2.80m | £0.04m |
Other Service | £12.22m | £3.63m | £4.29m | £7.03m | £6.90m | £1.76m |
Professional, Scientific and Technical | £167.26m | £190.60m | £229.29m | £261.64m | £180.19m | £49.85m |
Public Administration | £0.14m | £0.07m | £1.79m | £1.93m | £0.08m |
|
Real Estate | £0.11m | £0.33m | £0.44m | £2.84m | £0.54m |
|
Transportation and Storage | £4.79m | £1.02m | £2.35m | £7.00m | £2.09m | £0.30m |
Water & Sewage | £3.16m | £3.84m | £1.56m | £5.80m | £5.34m | £1.68m |
Wholesale & Retail | £9.01m | £7.53m | £18.44m | £16.36m | £9.52m | £2.94m |
Unknown / Not Provided | £24.15m | £19.08m | £43.43m | £7.09m | £23.39m | £4.46m |
Data is not routinely collected on business funding stage. or technology preparedness level. Innovate UK programmes may have a focus for both of these scales but will support a range of innovation within them. Innovate UK’s role is to enable business-led innovation across the UK, helping businesses at all stages grow through technology development and commercialisation
Asked by: Henry Smith (Conservative - Crawley)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the exclusion of the metal recycling sector from the Red Diesel Replacement competition on that industry’s capacity to decarbonise.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The £40m Red Diesel Replacement (RDR) innovation programme focusses on construction/mining/quarrying sectors, accounting for 63% of UK red-diesel usage. https://www.e4tech.com/resources/248-e4tech-and-cenex-engage-sectors-that-use-red-diesel-to-identify-innovation-needs-for-low-carbon-alternatives.php. However, technologies developed and lessons learned through RDR will also benefit the metals recycling sector.
Other Government support includes: