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573954

	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff
	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 4 March 2016 to Question 29005, if Ministers of his Department have concluded whether further steps are required to improve clarity and transparency on employment status for employers and individuals.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	44541
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>These issues are still being considered by the recently established Cross-Government Working Group on Employment Status.</p><p>The group consists of officials who work on employment status policy from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), HM Treasury, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office of Tax Simplification. The group is chaired by the head of employment status at HMRC.</p><p>Further information on the group and its work can be found on the Government website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/cross-government-working-group-on-employment-status" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/cross-government-working-group-on-employment-status</a></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 09/09/2016 11:45:44 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

582619

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2016
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff
	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 12 September 2016 to Question 45149, how many climate change experts are employed by his Department; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	46321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s activity to tackle climate change cuts across the work of various teams and is undertaken by officials across a number of professions, including policy advisors, scientists, engineers and economists. In addition the Department has access to a range of experts from outside the Department including academia and organisations such as the Met Office Hadley Centre. Consequently, it is not possible to provide an exact number of officials who could be called climate change experts.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 10/10/2016 11:11:49 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

596204

	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff
	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 staff on the payroll of his Department who work in Westminster are (a) British nationals and (b) nationals of another country.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	John Pugh
	uin	47575
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the Government will be consulting in due course on how we work with business to ensure that workers in this country have the skills that they need to get a job. But there are no proposals to publish lists of the number or proportion of foreign workers.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 17/10/2016 16:56:07 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1454 label Biography information for John Pugh

541128

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2016
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff
	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 plans he has to base staff of his Department working on industrial strategy in offices outside London.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	43632
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Department announced its decision earlier this year to create a combined headquarters and policy function in London, to deliver a simpler, smaller department that is more flexible and responsive to stakeholders and businesses by 2020. This involves basing all policy roles in London by 2018, which will include those roles working on Industrial Strategy issues. </del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Given the recent Machinery of Government changes, over the coming months BEIS will be considering what the right structure for the Department should be, in order to deliver its objectives.</ins></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd previous answer version 15315 answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd 9321 answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 19/10/2016 16:20:28 question first ministerially corrected 16/01/2017 16:20:09 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

541127

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2016
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff
	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 of his Department's staff are based in the Sheffield office at St Paul's Place; and what plans he has for the future of those jobs.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	43631
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>As of 1 November 2016, there are 21 members of staff based in the Sheffield office at St Paul’s Place. Following the recent Machinery of Government changes, BEIS is considering how to best align the reform agendas of its predecessor departments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 14/11/2016 14:23:01 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone previous answer version 9326 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

658027

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2016
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff
	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 there is a representative of his Department's employees on its departmental board; and what plans he has to provide for additional stakeholder representation on that board.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	57514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>Yes, employees are represented on the Department’s board. The Permanent Secretary is a standing member of the Departmental Board, and meets with the Departmental Trade Unions as staff representatives.</p><p> </p><p>There are several other ways in which the views of employees of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are currently already taken into account by the Departmental Board and its supporting committees.</p><p> </p><p>The Board regularly discusses staff related matters, such as the Civil Service People Survey results which reflect the views of the Department’s employees, including views on the transition programme to create a new Department.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s governance structure includes a People and Operations Committee, chaired by the Directors General responsible for People, Corporate Services and the transition programme. This Committee has standing representation from the HR Director and staff diversity networks as full members. Recommendations from the Committee are routinely taken to the Department’s Executive Committee for endorsement and approval.</p><p> </p><p>The composition of the Departmental Board is determined by Cabinet Office and HMT’s <em>Corporate Governance in Central Government Departments: Code of Good practice</em> (2011). Cabinet Office and HMT are currently in the process of refreshing this guidance to reflect current best practice.</p><p> </p><p>The Board also has external Non-Executive Board Members (NEBMs) as standing members. NEBMs provide external challenge and scrutiny and offer wider stakeholder views to the Board.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 16/12/2016 14:52:42 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

657310

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff
	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 measures his Department has in place to support those of its staff who have mental health problems.
	tabling member constituency	Faversham and Mid Kent
	tabling member printed	Helen Whately
	uin	57220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department is committed to ensuring the wellbeing and good mental health of its employees and has various ways in which this is done. The support includes intranet guidance material, trained Mental Health First Aiders, a staff Wellbeing and Mental Health group who offer peer-to-peer support and promote awareness of mental health issues more widely. Reasonable adjustments are also put in place where beneficial for individuals working arrangements. Additionally there is an Employee Assistance Programme for counselling support and the Occupational Health Service where individuals can be referred to by the Line Managers for assessment and recommendations to support the individual.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 19/12/2016 15:26:36 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately

657302

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff
	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 plans his Department has to include worker representation on its departmental board.
	tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
	tabling member printed	Jake Berry
	uin	57001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>I refer my hon. Friend to the oral statement on the Corporate Governance Green Paper of 29 November 2016, Official Report, Column 1408.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 19/12/2016 15:53:55 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

658020

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2016
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff
	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 roles have been created in the communications team within his Department since its creation.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	57506
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>No new communications roles have been created since the creation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The department’s communications team is a merger of the ex-Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) communication teams, as per the wider Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy transition process as part of Machinery of Government (MoG) changes.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 21/12/2016 13:10:29 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

674394

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2017
	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: Staff
	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 estimate he has made of the number of employees in his Department working in full-time business support roles in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	60287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>Information on individual staff roles and the percentage of time spent on specific tasks is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 23/01/2017 14:04:15 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham