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596158

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date	07/10/2016
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	Small Businesses: 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, how many businesses have contacted the Business Support Helpline as a result of the Do More Online campaign in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	47186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2016 answer text <p>The ‘Do More Online’ campaign launched in November 2014 is promoted by means of content on the ‘Business is GREAT’ website. The Business Support Helpline logs referrals from the whole website, not individual pages, so does not capture the number of businesses contacting the Helpline specifically from the campaign.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 14/10/2016 12:55:57 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

596159

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
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	Small Businesses: 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, whether he has made an estimate of the Do More Online campaign's contribution to the British economy.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	47187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Do More Online campaign was part of the Small Business Digital Capability and a sub set of the Business is Great campaign. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published the following research and evaluation which includes an assessment of the Do More Online campaign.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-capabilities-in-small-and-medium-enterprises" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-capabilities-in-small-and-medium-enterprises</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/small-business-digital-capability-programme-challenge-fund-evaluation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/small-business-digital-capability-programme-challenge-fund-evaluation</a></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 47188 question first answered 17/10/2016 15:39:40 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

573544

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
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	Electrical Safety
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 his Department has made an assessment of the (a) benefits and (b) risks of using electrical socket safety covers or inserts.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	44124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>The Department has not made an assessment of the benefits and risks of using electrical socket covers or inserts.</p><p>Under the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 all products placed on the UK market must be safe and any products that do not comply can be removed from sale by Trading Standards.</p><p>There are no reports of death or injury as a result of the use of socket covers.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 09/09/2016 11:49:04 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

573545

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
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	Electrical Safety
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 representations he has received on the potential introduction of a ban on electrical socket safety covers or inserts.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	44125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>The Department has received representations from FatallyFlawed.org.uk putting forward their view that socket covers should be banned as they believe them to be unnecessary and dangerous due to the safety shutter system installed as standard in UK electrical sockets.</p><p>Under the General Product Safety Regulations 2005, all products placed on the UK market must be safe and any products that do not comply can already be removed from sale by Trading Standards. There are no reports of injuries or death as a result of the use of socket covers.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 09/09/2016 11:48:27 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

535464

registered interest
date	12/07/2016
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	Business: EU Law
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 work his Department is undertaking on identifying EU regulations that have a cost to British businesses that could be repealed or replaced.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	42469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/08/2016 answer text <p>In the short term, the Government will continue to seek the amendment or repeal of EU rules within the framework of the European Commission’s Regulatory Fitness (REFIT) programme, in order to minimise the regulatory burdens imposed on UK businesses. The REFIT programme was established in 2012 to review the stock of existing EU legislation in order to identify burdens, inconsistencies, gaps or ineffective measures and address them.</p><p> </p><p>Building on the work of the Red Tape Challenge and the current Cutting Red Tape programme, we will continue our engagement with business to gather their views on their priorities for reducing EU regulatory burdens wherever possible once the UK has left the EU. My Rt Hon Friend the former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Member for Bromsgrove (Sajid Javid) chaired a roundtable with business leaders, to discuss the challenges faced by businesses and ensure that the negotiation of the UK’s future relationship with the EU is carried out in the interest of UK companies, investors, potential investors and workers.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 25/08/2016 12:47:11 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson