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816697

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Industry: Morecambe Bay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the Government will recognise the partnership formed by local authorities in Lancaster, the South Lakes and Barrow in Furness to allow that partnership to develop its own local industrial strategy for the area served by the Morecambe Bay Economic Initiative.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	121124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2018 answer text <p>We will work in partnership with places to develop Local Industrial Strategies, which will be developed locally and agreed with government. We will agree the first Local Industrial Strategies by March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>As we set out in the Industrial Strategy White Paper, Local Industrial Strategies will establish new ways of working between national and local leaders in both the public and private sectors. I have been encouraged by the enthusiasm local areas have shown for Local Industrial Strategies. Places in England with a Mayoral Combined Authority will have a single strategy led by the mayor and supported by Local Enterprise Partnerships. For parts of the country without a mayor, the development of the strategy will be led by the Local Enterprise Partnership.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 12/01/2018 14:34:06 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

816751

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason the Impact Assessment for the Draft Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill does not include statistical information on the (a) costs and (b) benefits of the proposals.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	121178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the Impact Assessment, the costs and benefits will depend on the detailed methodology the independent regulator Ofgem adopts to set the level of a tariff cap. The Government does not wish to prejudice the deliberations of Ofgem’s work in establishing the methodology, and has therefore not included quantified analysis of the costs and benefits in the Impact Assessment but has included a qualitative discussion.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 10/01/2018 15:30:50 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

816752

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for what reason the Impact Assessment for the Draft Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill does not include an assessment of the potential merits of not including an appeals process to the Competition and Markets Authority.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	121179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2018 answer text <p>It would not be normal for an impact assessment to include an analysis of the merits of different appeal processes.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 10/01/2018 15:31:00 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

816753

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reasons his Department's impact assessment on the Draft Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill does not include an explanation for why it believes that Ofgem will be able to achieve an acceptable trade-off between the different criteria for setting the cap.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	121180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2018 answer text <p>Ofgem will consult on the methodology for setting the cap, including how it can best achieve an acceptable trade-off between the different criteria for setting the cap.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 10/01/2018 15:31:11 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

816754

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reasons his Department's impact assessment on the Draft Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill does not include analysis of the impact of the Pre-Payment Cap or retail price controls elsewhere.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	121181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2018 answer text <p>The Impact Assessment sets out clearly the rationale for introducing a cap. Analysis of the impact of the Pre-Payment Cap and retail price controls elsewhere will be of most relevance when the methodology for setting the cap is considered by Ofgem, but the Government will consider what might be relevant to include on this at the final legislation stage.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 12/01/2018 13:28:21 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

816755

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy what steps his Department is taking to ensure that consumers on default or standard variable energy tariffs get a fairer deal.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	121182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government published the draft Domestic Gas &amp; Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill which would require Ofgem to impose a tariff cap on domestic standard variable and default tariffs with some exceptions. The draft Bill is currently undergoing pre-legislative scrutiny by the BEIS Select Committee.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths grouped question UIN 121183 question first answered 11/01/2018 11:08:05 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

816756

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to address the loyalty penalty faced by consumers who do not switch energy providers.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	121183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government published the draft Domestic Gas &amp; Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill which would require Ofgem to impose a tariff cap on domestic standard variable and default tariffs with some exceptions. The draft Bill is currently undergoing pre-legislative scrutiny by the BEIS Select Committee.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths grouped question UIN 121182 question first answered 11/01/2018 11:08:05 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

816781

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Consumers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of whether markets have been found to act against consumer interests.
tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
tabling member printed	Laura Smith
uin	121208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2018 answer text <p>We will issue a Consumer Green Paper in due course that will tackle areas where markets are not working for consumers.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 12/01/2018 14:35:06 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4648 label Biography information for Laura Smith

816786

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that businesses make terms and conditions of online purchases clearer.
tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
tabling member printed	Laura Smith
uin	121213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government is currently exploring how best to encourage businesses to apply terms and conditions which are jargon free and can be more easily engaged with by consumers. This includes the use of model terms and conditions.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 12/01/2018 14:32:17 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4648 label Biography information for Laura Smith

816812

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the transparency document entitled Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Gender Pay Gap Report 2017, if he will set out the pay gap data for median, mean and bonus pay by (a) grade, (b) profession and (c) and whether the staff to whom that data applies are from (i) the core department or (ii) arms-length bodies.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	121239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2018 answer text <p>The median and mean pay gap by grade for core BEIS, under the methodology used for gender pay gap reporting, are:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Grade</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Mean Pay Gap</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Median Pay Gap</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AA/AO</p></td><td><p>0.6%</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>3.5%</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HEO/SEO</p></td><td><p>3.6%</p></td><td><p>4.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>G7/6</p></td><td><p>2.9%</p></td><td><p>3.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SCS</p></td><td><p>10.9%</p></td><td><p>3.5%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Grade</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Mean Bonus Gap</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Median Bonus Gap</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AA/AO</p></td><td><p>-8.6%</p></td><td><p>-6.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>-13.7%</p></td><td><p>-16.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HEO/SEO</p></td><td><p>8.5%</p></td><td><p>3.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>G7/6</p></td><td><p>-0.8%</p></td><td><p>0.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SCS</p></td><td><p>-1.3%</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold any data on the pay gap, if any, by profession.</p><p>It should be noted that the methodology used for Gender Pay Gap reporting differs from that used for considering Equal Pay cases. In addition the figures above do not compare staff doing the same or similar weighted work.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 10/01/2018 16:09:45 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett