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1503297

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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	Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish the independent review of the research, development and innovation landscape.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	44969
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Department has no plans to make an assessment of the impact of the medical cannabis industry on the economy or employment levels. The Department annually publishes data on the impact on the economy and employment of the wider Life Sciences sector in the <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fbioscience-and-health-technology-database-annual-reports&amp;data=05%7C01%7CRobert.Reid%40officeforlifesciences.gov.uk%7C52a0f4af72164a3b141608da90ba3996%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637981426767702174%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=xG98g%2B1%2BBzW72DAM8Cpp8i%2FEn2ic5G1qf2ZbOzZsXXU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Bioscience and health technology sector statistics</a>, and this includes analysis of the bio-pharmaceuticals sector of which the medical cannabis industry is an important part.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">In leading his independent Review of the Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape, Sir Paul Nurse has gathered input from members of the Review’s Scoping Group and Sounding Board, alongside hundreds of organisations in the UK’s RDI landscape. Work is underway to consider and finalise the Review’s recommendations, which will consider input from those group members, ahead of the Review’s publication in the coming months.</ins></p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 28/09/2022 09:25:52 question first ministerially corrected 03/10/2022 12:34:32 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani previous answer version 20886 answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1503298

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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	Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape Review
	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 the (a) Scoping Group and (b) Sounding Board to the review of the research, development and innovation landscape will approve the recommendations of the Review.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	44970
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Department has no plans to make an assessment of the impact of the medical cannabis industry on the economy or employment levels. The Department annually publishes data on the impact on the economy and employment of the wider Life Sciences sector in the <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fbioscience-and-health-technology-database-annual-reports&amp;data=05%7C01%7CRobert.Reid%40officeforlifesciences.gov.uk%7C52a0f4af72164a3b141608da90ba3996%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637981426767702174%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=xG98g%2B1%2BBzW72DAM8Cpp8i%2FEn2ic5G1qf2ZbOzZsXXU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Bioscience and health technology sector statistics</a>, and this includes analysis of the bio-pharmaceuticals sector of which the medical cannabis industry is an important part.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In leading his independent Review of the Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape, Sir Paul Nurse has gathered input from members of the Review’s Scoping Group and Sounding Board, alongside hundreds of organisations in the UK’s RDI landscape. Work is underway to consider and finalise the Review’s recommendations, which will consider input from those group members, ahead of the Review’s publication in the coming months.</ins></p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 28/09/2022 09:25:52 question first ministerially corrected 03/10/2022 12:34:22 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani previous answer version 20889 answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1550590

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2022
	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	EU Law: Northern Ireland
	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 assessment he has made of the capacity of Northern Ireland Departments and the Northern Ireland Assembly to update or replace EU Retained Law by December 2023.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
	uin	108384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Government recognises the unique challenges Northern Ireland departments are facing in delivering plans for REUL reforms in the continued absence of a functioning Executive and Assembly. The Brexit Opportunities Unit has established regular intergovernmental meetings intended to support devolved counterparts with identification of which REUL is devolved or reserved, as part of the REUL Reform Programme.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">My officials are working with the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), other Whitehall departments and Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) counterparts to determine the overall catalogue of REUL and develop an approach that accounts for the political situation in Northern Ireland ahead of the sunset date. We stand ready to assist our NICS counterparts and NIO as and when required.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Departments will analyse their retained EU law carefully to determine what should be preserved as part of domestic law, as well as retained EU law that should be repealed, or amended.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government recognises the unique challenges Northern Ireland departments are facing in delivering plans for REUL reforms in the continued absence of a functioning Executive and Assembly. The Brexit Opportunities Unit which works closely with Northern Ireland Office, has established regular intergovernmental meetings intended to support devolved counterparts with identification of which REUL is devolved or reserved, as part of the REUL Reform Programme.</ins></p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 20/12/2022 15:53:21 question first ministerially corrected 20/12/2022 19:16:35 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani previous answer version 43770 answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1523565

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2022
	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	Housing: Sales
	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 residential property sales were registered at HM Land Registry across (a) all properties and (b) new-build properties in each local authority in England and Wales in each of the last three years; and what proportion of those were to (i) UK companies, (ii) overseas companies, (iii) UK-based individuals and (iv) individuals based overseas.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
	tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
	uin	65632
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>HM Land Registry Price Paid Data available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/price-paid-data-downloads" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/price-paid-data-downloads</a> contains information on property sales, broken down by local authority. The last three years’ data is provided with this answer in a separate spreadsheet. In summary, the breakdown is as set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Residential</p></td><td><p>Residential classified as new build</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>337,540</p></td><td><p>3,198</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>964,359</p></td><td><p>54,607</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>729,743</p></td><td><p>85,167</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>839,999</p></td><td><p>112,303</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>We will place a detailed breakdown between UK and overseas companies, and individuals providing UK and non-UK correspondence addresses as soon as possible in the Libraries of the House.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Dean Russell question first answered 26/10/2022 16:22:53 question first ministerially corrected 27/10/2022 14:19:01 answering member 4812 label Biography information for Dean Russell attachment 1 file name Question 65632 - HMLR statistics - residential and new build residential 2019 - 2022 .xlsx title HMLR stats - res/new build res 2019-22 previous answer version 27864 answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Dean Russell answering member 4812 label Biography information for Dean Russell
	tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1505520

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2022
	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	Conditions of Employment: Enforcement
	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 it remains the Government’s policy to establish a single enforcement body for employment rights, as stated in its response of June 2021 to a consultation on proposals for such an enforcement body.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	48367
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The creation of a single enforcement body for employment rights requires primary legislation which will only be introduced when parliamentary time allows.</del></p><p> </p><p>The creation of this new body will be a substantial organisational change, so it is right that we take our time to thoroughly consider all aspects of this reform before proceeding.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/09/2022 14:56:42 question first ministerially corrected 21/09/2022 08:55:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price previous answer version 18910 answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1254172

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2020
	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	Bounce Back Loan Scheme
	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 assessment he has made of the number of businesses prevented from accessing the Bounce Back Loan Scheme due to being declined for feeder accounts by banks after a credit check.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
	tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
	uin	118538
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information. <del class="ministerial">Decisions on lending are a matter for the British Business Bank and accredited lenders.</del></p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 25/11/2020 16:24:47 question first ministerially corrected 30/11/2020 15:36:09 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully previous answer version 64352 answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1287372

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2021
	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	Printing Machinery
	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 prevent printer manufacturers from locking devices to only being able to use approved printer cartridges.
	tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
	tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
	uin	154747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2021 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Government is committed to tackling consumer rip-offs and bad business practices, including profiteering. Under competition law, responsibility for investigating individual and market-wide competition issues falls to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition authority.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government has ensured that the CMA has significant powers and expertise to investigate anti-competitive practices. Consumers and businesses can report concerns regarding competition issues to the CMA.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government continues to work with the CMA and other consumer and retail organisations to monitor the extent of profiteering, and will update the law if it is proportionate to do so.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government is committed to tackling consumer rip-offs and bad business practices. The Government has ensured that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has significant powers and expertise to investigate such issues.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, it is a criminal offence to provide consumers with misleading information or omit important details about a product they are purchasing. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Under competition law, the CMA is responsible for investigating individual and market-wide competition issues. Consumers and businesses should report concerns about competition issues to the CMA.</ins></p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 24/02/2021 18:02:22 question first ministerially corrected 01/03/2021 14:50:20 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully previous answer version 84760 answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1300314

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2021
	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	Uber: Conditions of 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, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy of 24 February 2021, Official report, col 939, which stakeholders ACAS conducted its fact-finding exercise with.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	164414
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2021 answer text <p>Acas engaged with a range of groups, including employer bodies and trade unions, as well as professional bodies with advisory contact with employers, such as employment lawyers, accountants, and payroll services. <del class="ministerial">They shared their findings with BEIS officials on 17 February 2021.</del></p><p> </p><p>Officials are currently considering these findings, and the Government will respond in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 11/03/2021 17:38:29 question first ministerially corrected 22/03/2021 11:29:25 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully previous answer version 89531 answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1314045

	registered interest
	date	12/05/2021
	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	Parental 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, further to the Answer of 9 February 2021 to Question 146798 on Paternity Leave, how many people received statutory shared parental pay in (a) Quarter 3 and (b) Quarter 4 of 2020-21.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
	tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
	uin	829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2021 answer text <p>Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Pay was introduced in December 2014 for the parents of children due or adopted from 5 April 2015. The scheme enables eligible working parents to share up to 50 weeks of leave and up to 37 weeks of pay in the first year, where the mother does not intend to use her full maternity entitlements.</p><p>Information provided by employers to HMRC in respect of claims for Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) indicates that 4,100 individuals were in receipt of ShPP in Quarter 3 of 2020-21, and 3,300 individuals were in receipt of ShPP in Quarter 4 <ins class="ministerial">(January and February only)</ins> of 2020-21.</p><p>Please note that HMRC does not hold information which calculates the total duration of ShPP received by individual claimants. However, the following table sets out the number of individuals in receipt of ShPP in 2019-20 by the number of months in the year that they made a claim:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Number of months claimed in 2019-20 (see note 4)</p></td><td><p>Number of claimants</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>4,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>1,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Please note:</em></p><ol><li><em>The data collected uses HMRC Real Time Information (RTI) system and was extracted in May 2021. RTI is subject to revision or updates, and so there may be small fluctuations in figures reported, and these figures should not be considered “final”.</em></li><li><em>Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.</em></li><li><em>The number of individuals in receipt of ShPP per quarter are based on the total number of individuals in that quarter irrespective of when the payment first started. Quarterly figures should not be added together to make a yearly count of individuals in receipt of ShPP due to double counting claimants from quarter to quarter.</em></li><li><em>“Number of months claimed” counts each month the same individual was in receipt of ShPP in a given tax year (2019-20). This should not be interpreted as the total duration of pay received. Where individuals are in receipt of pay that spans two financial years HMRC data can only count the period within a single year and where individuals have received pay spanning months, however briefly, will be recorded as two months.</em></li><li><em>This data represents individuals in receipt of Shared Parental Pay only, so those who take unpaid Shared Parental Leave are not included.</em></li></ol> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 21/05/2021 13:17:42 question first ministerially corrected 21/05/2021 14:32:33 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully previous answer version 1607 answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1434684

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2022
	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	Foreign Companies: Property
	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 plans to introduce a publicly available register for residential property that has foreign ownership.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	128333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Tomorrow, the Government will introduce a register of beneficial ownership, and is continuing to progress the draft Registration of Overseas Entities legislation.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">As announced by the Secretary of State on 28 February, a Register of Overseas Entities will be legislated for within the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill, introduced to Parliament on 1 March.</ins></p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 28/02/2022 18:06:01 question first ministerially corrected 03/03/2022 10:00:25 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully previous answer version 53953 answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell