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999590

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
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	Fireworks: Pets
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what guidance his Department provides to local authorities on the effect of fireworks on pets.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	187029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Government takes firework safety very seriously and the Office for Product Safety and Standards is currently working with industry, retailers, charities and others, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) and Netmums, to promote the safe and responsible use of fireworks and to raise consumer awareness on firework safety.</p><p> </p><p>We are encouraging their considerate use through government-sponsored guidance via the GOV.UK website. This includes a link to the Fireworks Code hosted by RoSPA that contains a section on respecting neighbours especially those with pets and informing them of planned displays. In addition, the Government supports the Blue Cross animal charity guidance which advises how to avoid or reduce stress to animals when fireworks are being set off. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), the Kennel Club and the Dogs Trust provide similar advice on their websites concerning how to minimise the impact of fireworks use on animals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 12/11/2018 17:27:46 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

995569

registered interest
date	26/10/2018
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	Employment
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 (a) extend access to employment tribunals, and (b) improve employment rights for employees with less than two years’ service.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	184424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is investing over £1bn in a programme of modernisation and reform of the courts and tribunals. These reforms will be implemented over a number of years, with reform of the Employment Tribunals scheduled for the latter part of the reform programme.</p><p> </p><p>We responded to the Taylor review of modern working practices in February 2018, committing to firm action and future legislation. We launched four consultations on the detail, including proposals that would improve clarity for recently recruited employees and a consultation on the enforcement of labour market rights. We are currently considering the responses and will respond in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Qualifying periods apply to certain employment rights so as to strike the right balance between fairness for employees and flexibility for employers, and so that employers are not discouraged from taking on new staff.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 01/11/2018 16:59:22 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst previous answer version 82146 answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

947326

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
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
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 criteria his Department used to decide which areas would be chosen to work with the Government to develop their local industrial strategies.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	167959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2018 answer text <p>We have committed to work with all Local Enterprise Partnerships and Mayoral Combined Authorities across England to develop Local Industrial Strategies.</p><p> </p><p>Government will take a phased approach - in July we announced the next wave of six areas with which Government is working closely with on their Local Industrial Strategies. These were chosen to give us experience of working with a variety of areas.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 05/09/2018 16:16:17 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

947329

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
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: Sheffield City Region
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 his Department did not choose to work with the Sheffield City Region on a local industrial strategy.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	167962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2018 answer text <p>We have committed to work with all Local Enterprise Partnerships and Mayoral Combined Authorities, including the Sheffield City Region, to develop Local Industrial Strategies.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 05/09/2018 16:18:19 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

944719

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
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	Digital Technology: South Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2018 to Question 158755 on Digital Technology: South Yorkshire, how much of that British Business Bank funding has been allocated to South Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	166179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2018 answer text <p>In relation to the £2.5 billion of new funding for BBB’s Patient Capital Programme (BPC), this is not allocated on a regional basis but rather is a programme which operates nationally and will make investments wherever suitable opportunities arise.</p><p> </p><p>Across the UK, programmes operated by the Government-owned British Business Bank are currently supporting over £5.2 billion of finance to more than 74,000 smaller businesses. Additionally, since 2012 the Start-Up Loans programme has delivered more than 55,000 loans, totalling over £415m. While it is not possible to say precisely how much of this finance has been allocated to South Yorkshire, by way of example, the British Business Bank’s Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund has provided £11,478,500 to businesses in the area covered by the Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley and Sheffield local authorities up until March 2018.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 30/07/2018 13:01:16 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford previous answer version 71989 answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

942468

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
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	Insolvency: Separated People
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 plans to undertake a review of the adequacy of the guidance given to the Office of the Official Receiver in relation to the separation of non-married couples with shared assets and shared debts.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	164440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>Guidance issued to Official Receivers is reviewed periodically by the Insolvency Service, depending on factors such as the age of the guidance or changes in law or practice. There is no specific guidance to Official Receivers in relation to the separation of non-married couples with shared assets and shared debts, though aspects of this are covered in other guidance such as in relation to the handling of cases where a property is jointly-owned by a non-married couple. That guidance was reviewed last month.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 19/07/2018 16:28:50 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

940013

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
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	Fuel Poverty
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 are taking to (a) reduce fuel poverty and (b) prevent excess winter deaths in the winter of 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	163560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2018 answer text <p>The best long-term solution to tackling fuel poverty is to improve energy efficiency to bring the cost of heating homes down. That’s exactly what we’re doing through the Energy Company Obligation where £450 million of the £640 million per year scheme is currently directed towards low income and vulnerable households. We recently announced that we will focus the whole of the scheme on low income and vulnerable households from later this year. We also announced that we will increase the size of ‘flexible eligibility’, which enables Local Authorities to work with partners such as the health sector to determine which households are most in need of support. In addition, initially up to 10% of the scheme will be focused on innovation, bringing forward new technology that will help tackle fuel poverty over the long term.</p><p> </p><p>In order to help low income and vulnerable households with the cost of keeping warm each winter, the Warm Home Discount provides over 2 million households with a £140 rebate off their energy bill. In addition, Winter Fuel Payments provide all pensioner households, who can be some of the most vulnerable to the impacts of living in a cold home, with a payment of between £100 and £300 each winter.</p><p> </p><p>Also, the current Safeguard Tariff caps energy prices for 4 million pre-payment meter customers, and 1 million households in receipt of the Warm Home Discount, two groups who are known to be among the most vulnerable in society. The Domestic Gas &amp; Electricity (Tariff Cap) Act 2018 will require Ofgem to temporarily extend these protections to a further 11 million customers on standard variable and default tariffs.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 30/07/2018 13:01:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

923508

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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	Local Enterprise Partnerships: Directors
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 proportion of Local Enterprise Partnership boards comprise representatives from (a) the private sector, (b) the public sector, (c) trade unions, (d) universities, (e) further education colleges and (f) chambers of commerce.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	153276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>Local Enterprise Partnerships bring together business and civic leaders across a functional economic area to prioritise investment to where it will most effectively drive growth.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the Government’s National Assurance Framework, all Local Enterprise Partnership boards must have a private sector chair, with at least 50% of the rest of the members also coming from the private sector. Other board membership should be drawn from local authority leaders and other relevant public sector organisations. It is for individual Local Enterprise Partnerships to determine the specific composition of their boards, reflecting the economic priorities of their areas.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 18/06/2018 14:59:46 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

894874

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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	Minimum Wage: Apprentices
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 plans to bring apprenticeship wages into line with national minimum wage rates for their age group.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	139495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government asks the Low Pay Commission (LPC) to recommend the Apprenticeship National Minimum Wage such that it increases pay of the lowest paid apprentices without damaging their employment prospect.</p><p> </p><p>The LPC will be conducting a review of the minimum wage youth rates and the apprenticeship rate structure in light of; changes in young peoples’ participation in work and education, the introduction of the National Living Wage and significant policy changes to apprenticeship policy in England. They are due to issue advice on this matter to Government in Spring 2019.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 03/05/2018 13:22:32 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

887055

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
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	Business: Environment Protection
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 promote environmental sustainability in businesses.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	136623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government is taking significant steps to promote environmental sustainability in businesses and to encourage clean growth in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The Clean Growth Strategy set out ambitious plans to promote sustainability in businesses, including developing a package of measures to improve business energy productivity by at least 20% by 2030.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Resources and Waste Strategy which is planned to be published later this year, will set out the Government’s approach to increasing resource efficiency and minimising waste across all sectors of the economy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 01/05/2018 16:39:52 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 53870 answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis