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127W<br />
Written Answers<br />
26 OCTOBER 2009<br />
Written Answers<br />
128W<br />
Mr. McFadden: To date, the successful applications<br />
for funding under the Technology Strategy Board’s<br />
Low Carbon Vehicles Innovation Platform are:<br />
Lead Company<br />
September 2007<br />
Project Title<br />
Competition<br />
Jaguar Cars Ltd<br />
Limo-Green<br />
FiFe Batteries Ltd<br />
Li-Ion batteries for plug-in HEVs<br />
Magnomatics Ltd<br />
HiTED<br />
Axon Automotive Axon 60<br />
Jaguar Cars Ltd<br />
Flywheel hybrid system for premium<br />
vehicles<br />
TWI Ltd<br />
(LAB-LCV)<br />
Leyland Trucks Ltd<br />
Second generation 7.5t-12t diesel/electric<br />
hybrid truck<br />
Land Rover<br />
Range Extended Vehicle (REHEV)<br />
Tanfield Group plc<br />
DESERVE - Develop high energy<br />
battery and high power supercaps for all<br />
electric range van evaluation<br />
BAE Systems<br />
Hybrid electric technology for transit<br />
buses<br />
Ford Motor Co Ltd<br />
Engine optimisation for reduced<br />
parasitic losses<br />
Hatcher Components Ltd Commercial vehicle fuel and carbon<br />
reduction by the use of ’aerospace aero’<br />
devices<br />
Intelligent Energy<br />
Zero emission London taxi<br />
commercialisation<br />
Ricardo UK Ltd<br />
2/4 CAR 2/4 - stroke switching carbon<br />
reduction vehicle<br />
JLR<br />
Lower cost, light weight vehicles by<br />
increasing the use of post consumer<br />
aluminium scrap<br />
Ultra-efficient vehicle systems<br />
competition<br />
Smith Electric Vehicles<br />
Ricardo UK Ltd.<br />
Axeon Technologies Ltd.<br />
Integral Powertrain Ltd.<br />
Nissan Motor Manufacturing<br />
Ultra-low carbon vehicles<br />
demonstrator competition<br />
Arup<br />
AEA<br />
Nissan/Smith Electric Vehicles<br />
Ford Motor Company<br />
EDF Energy/Elektromotive/<br />
Greater London Authority/<br />
Westminster City Council<br />
BMW Group<br />
Peugeot<br />
Toyota/EDF Energy<br />
Integrated ‘E’ van system<br />
Hyboost—Hybridised boosted<br />
optimised system with turbocompound<br />
Next generation battery management<br />
system<br />
Ultra-cost efficient hybrid powertrain<br />
(UCEHP)<br />
Ultra-efficient electric machines and<br />
drives for EVs and HEVs<br />
Coventry and Birmingham Low<br />
Emission Demonstrators (CABLED)<br />
EEMS Accelerate<br />
Electric Vehicle Accelerated<br />
Development in the North East<br />
(EVADINE)<br />
Ford Focus Battery Electric Vehicle<br />
London South East Bid<br />
MINI E Research Project<br />
Peugeot Electric Cars<br />
PHV—Paving the way to full<br />
commercialisation of plug-in hybrid<br />
vehicles<br />
The above 28 projects are being grant funded to a<br />
total of £59.1 million.<br />
Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing Industry<br />
Jessica Morden: To ask the Minister of State, Department<br />
for Business, Innovation and Skills how many cars have<br />
been purchased under the car scrappage scheme in (a)<br />
the UK and (b) Wales. [294703]<br />
Ian Lucas: Using data based on the locations of<br />
dealerships and data for scrappage transactions which<br />
have been completed and vehicles delivered, there have<br />
been 169,159 completed scrappage transactions across<br />
the UK including 7,934 in Wales.<br />
MW Kellogg: Export Credit Guarantees<br />
Sir Menzies Campbell: To ask the Minister of State,<br />
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills<br />
whether the support provided by the Export Credits<br />
Guarantee Department in connection with the LNG<br />
Plant at Bonny Island in Nigeria included commissions<br />
to agents. [293802]<br />
Ian Lucas: No.<br />
Sir Menzies Campbell: To ask the Minister of State,<br />
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what<br />
steps were taken by the Export Credits Guarantee<br />
Department to ascertain whether MW Kellogg Ltd. or<br />
other subsidiaries of Halliburton were implicated in<br />
(a) domestic and (b) foreign jurisdictions in allegations<br />
of bribery in connection with the LNG Plant at Bonny<br />
Island in Nigeria. [293803]<br />
Ian Lucas: Prior to committing its support for the<br />
supplies of goods and services by MW Kellogg Ltd. to<br />
the LNG plant at Bonny Island in Nigeria, ECGD<br />
obtained from the company a warranty that to the best<br />
of its knowledge no-one, including anyone acting on its<br />
behalf, had engaged in any corrupt activity in connection<br />
with the goods and services for which ECGD provide<br />
its support. Following the provision of its support,<br />
ECGD became aware of allegations of bribery and<br />
corruption in connection with the LNG plant at Bonny<br />
Island. Since ECGD is not an investigatory body and<br />
has no investigatory powers, it does not carry out<br />
investigations into such allegations but reports them to<br />
the Serious Fraud Office<br />
News International<br />
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister of State, Department<br />
for Business, Innovation and Skills whether any Minister<br />
or official in his Department and its predecessors has<br />
had (a) meetings, (b) communications and (c) other<br />
contacts with News International in the last five years.<br />
[295331]<br />
Mr. McFadden: The BIS relationship manager has<br />
met with their opposite number in News International<br />
on a reactive basis over the past five years, when industrial<br />
concerns of a general nature were raised. In addition,<br />
Lord Carter held a private meeting with James Murdoch<br />
on 26 February this year as part of his evidence gathering<br />
for the interim Digital Britain Report.<br />
Northern Rock: Corporate Hospitality<br />
Lorely Burt: To ask the Minister of State,<br />
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how<br />
much the Shareholder Executive has spent on<br />
entertaining staff of Northern Rock since January<br />
2008. [295408]