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657373

	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	Companies: Registration
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve the scrutiny of company formations, in the light of reports of UK-registered companies being used to operate international scams.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL4007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>When a company incorporates with Companies House, information is required about the company’s type, its name and registered office, its directors and shareholders, its share structure and, under measures that came into force in June this year, its beneficial owners – the people with significant influence and control over it. Copies of the company’s governing documents are also required.</p><p>A number of checks are undertaken to ensure this information is complete, formatted correctly and that it meets the requirements of the Companies Act 2006. If these requirements are not met, the application will be rejected and the company will not be incorporated.</p><p>Incorporation allows the company to take actions such as opening a bank account in its own name. But when it first seeks to do this, the company and the relevant officers of the company will be subject to due diligence processes by the bank or other relevant obliged entities with which it is entering into a business relationship. UK companies are subject to customer due diligence many times throughout their lifetime.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 19/12/2016 14:57:04 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

657374

	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	Directors: Registration
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to prevent people being registered as company directors without being aware of their responsibilities.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL4008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/12/2016 answer text <p>Since 10 October 2015, the Registrar of Companies has been required under section 1079B of the Companies Act 2006 to provide newly appointed company directors with information about their duties and responsibilities as a director. This information is contained in a leaflet which the Registrar sends to all newly appointed directors.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 28/12/2016 13:20:36 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

622492

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2016
	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	Kids Company
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect to receive a report of the Official Receiver's winding up of Kids Company.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
	uin	HL2813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>The Official Receiver sent a report regarding the winding up of Keeping Kids Company to creditors, including Cabinet Office and HMRC, on 1 October 2015. The Official Receiver’s enquiries into the affairs of Keeping Kids Company are continuing, and it would not be appropriate for me to comment on an ongoing investigation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 07/11/2016 16:11:25 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

640771

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2016
	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	Erasmus+ Programme
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the UK will continue to participate in the Erasmus Plus programme following the withdrawal of the UK from the EU, and if not, what assessment they have made of the impact on (1) graduate employment, and (2) the provision of modern foreign language degree courses at UK universities.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Coussins
	uin	HL3365
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2016 answer text <p>Until our departure from the EU, we remain a fully paid up Member State, with all the rights and obligations that entails. Post-exit access to Erasmus+ will be a matter for the negotiations, which follow the triggering of Article 50. We will work through the implications for future years as part of the wider negotiations.</p><p>The Treasury guarantee to underwrite competitively bid for funding commitments up to the point at which the UK departs the EU includes those parts of Erasmus+ that are bid for competitively.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 30/11/2016 13:06:07 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3829 label Biography information for Baroness Coussins

535130

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	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	Natural Gas
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether in negotiating the UK’s exit from the EU they plan to seek for the UK to be included in any EU regulations on the security of gas supply in times of crisis, as set out in the European Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation concerning measures to safeguard the security of gas supply and repealing Regulation (EU) No 994/2010.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
	uin	HL1126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2016 answer text <p>While the UK remains a member of the EU the existing rules apply and new legislation that applies to the UK will be implemented.</p><p> </p><p>It will be for the new Prime Minister to decide on our future relationship with the EU, including on matters of energy.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 25/07/2016 13:13:52 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

641828

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2016
	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	Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether green gas from marginal grassland will be included in, or excluded from, the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme; and what is the rationale for that decision.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
	uin	HL3399
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2016 answer text <p>The domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is targeted at, but not limited to, homes off the gas grid. The technologies supported by the scheme include biomass boilers, air source and ground source heat pumps and solar thermal. Green gas from marginal grassland would be used to fuel biogas combustion. Biogas combustion is not supported under the domestic RHI because the scheme is targeted at single domestic properties where the use of biogas combustion would be less suitable.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 28/11/2016 16:25:42 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

654252

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2016
	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	Climate Change
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what priority the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy places on climate change; how many of its civil servants currently work on climate change in a full- or part-time capacity; and how many civil servants worked on climate change in a full- or part-time capacity in the Department of Energy and Climate Change before it was disbanded (1) at the time the Department was closed, (2) in 2015, (3) in 2014, and (4) in 2013.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
	uin	HL3917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s activity to tackle climate change cuts across the work of various teams and is undertaken by officials who, as well as energy and climate change, also work to deliver the department’s other priorities.</p><p>Consequently, it is not possible to provide an exact number of officials who work on energy and climate change issues. However, I would like to reassure the noble Lady that delivery of the Government’s commitments on climate change remains a key priority for the department.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 19/12/2016 12:17:40 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

539217

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	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: Departmental Responsibilities
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will continue to lead on consumer affairs; and if so, which minister has responsibility for that area.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
	uin	HL1293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/08/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will continue to lead on consumer affairs. Margot James MP is the Minister for Small Business, Consumers, and Corporate Responsibility.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 15/08/2016 12:24:29 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

540432

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2016
	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	Trading Standards
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have conducted a review of trading standards this year and, if so, when they plan to publish the outcome of that review.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
	uin	HL1312
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2016 answer text <p>The evidence and material from the recent Review of Trading Standards will be taken forward as part of the Cutting Red Tape Review of Local Authority Regulation and Enforcement. This review has closed for general comments and further evidence is being gathered and analysed. The Government will publish the findings from the Cutting Red Tape Review in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 03/08/2016 13:26:31 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

540434

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2016
	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	Tumble Dryers: Fires
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what recent discussions they have had with manufacturers about fires caused by faulty electric tumble dryers.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
	uin	HL1314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2016 answer text <p>Whilst the Government continues to meet regularly with representatives from the electrical appliances sector, the enforcement of the relevant legislation is a matter for local Government Trading Standards services. The recent modification programme for tumble dryers announced by Whirlpool is being overseen by Peterborough Council as the Primary Authority. The Government has asked Peterborough Council to provide regular updates on progress.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 03/08/2016 13:27:57 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town