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418450

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Dementia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria NICE has set for new dementia treatments to be recommended for provision by the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	10022
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence assesses significant new drugs and treatments, including those for the treatment of dementia, through its technology appraisal programme. Technology appraisals are conducted in accordance with NICE’s <em>Guide to the methods of technology appraisal 2013</em> which is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/article/pmg9/chapter/Foreword" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/article/pmg9/chapter/Foreword</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 16/09/2015 15:15:57 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1401335

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Consultants
	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 had any (a) financial contract and (b) meetings with (i) Clifford Chance LLP, (ii) FTI Consulting and (iii) Fenchurch Advisory Partners in the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	100403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>Details of Government contracts above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Details of ministerial meetings are published quarterly and can be found on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 18/01/2022 09:02:24 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1401356

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	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	Music: Video on Demand
	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 he is taking to ensure that music makers receive equitable remuneration when contracting their product to streaming platforms.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	100426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>A comprehensive programme of work is underway to investigate the issues raised by the Digital, Media, Culture and Sport Select Committee’s inquiry into the economics of music streaming. This includes Government-funded research and extensive stakeholder engagement to strengthen the evidence base needed to determine whether intervention is warranted.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 19/01/2022 16:28:19 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1401576

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	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	Plastics: Manufacturing Industries
	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 he is taking to support research into new zero carbon methods of producing plastics in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	100539
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The billions we are investing in R&amp;D, skills and support for digital technology adoption through initiatives like Made Smarter and Help to Grow is providing a competitive business environment for British manufacturers. It is attracting new investment, developing new export opportunities, and securing new high-value jobs in our industrial heartlands.</p><p> </p><p>UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funds a variety of projects related to plastics including projects improving sustainability and recyclability of plastics in the UK. For example, the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge, with £60m of funding from UKRI through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and matched by £149m from industry, is supporting academic-led research to address known problems and to support industry-led collaborative research and development of new technologies, de-risking innovative plastics sustainability projects, and delivering over 230kt per annum of additional recycling capacity. The output of this capacity is intended to be used back in packaging and will make a real contribution to the gap of recycled plastics in the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The introduction of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging will see businesses that place packaging on the market bear responsibility for the costs of managing that packaging once it becomes waste. It will incentivise businesses to design and use packaging that is easier to recycle, and to increase the recycling of packaging waste.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, The UK Plastic Packaging Tax will be introduced from 1 April 2022 to encourage the use of recycled plastic in packaging, and in turn stimulate increased levels of recycling and collection of plastic waste, diverting it away from landfill or incineration. It is estimated that this will lead to an increase in the use of recycled plastic by 40% in 2022-23.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 100540 question first answered 13/01/2022 17:30:26 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1401577

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	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	Plastics: Manufacturing Industries
	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 he is taking to increase the proportion of plastics consumed in the UK which are (a) manufactured in the UK and (b) recyclable in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	100540
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The billions we are investing in R&amp;D, skills and support for digital technology adoption through initiatives like Made Smarter and Help to Grow is providing a competitive business environment for British manufacturers. It is attracting new investment, developing new export opportunities, and securing new high-value jobs in our industrial heartlands.</p><p> </p><p>UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funds a variety of projects related to plastics including projects improving sustainability and recyclability of plastics in the UK. For example, the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge, with £60m of funding from UKRI through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and matched by £149m from industry, is supporting academic-led research to address known problems and to support industry-led collaborative research and development of new technologies, de-risking innovative plastics sustainability projects, and delivering over 230kt per annum of additional recycling capacity. The output of this capacity is intended to be used back in packaging and will make a real contribution to the gap of recycled plastics in the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The introduction of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging will see businesses that place packaging on the market bear responsibility for the costs of managing that packaging once it becomes waste. It will incentivise businesses to design and use packaging that is easier to recycle, and to increase the recycling of packaging waste.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, The UK Plastic Packaging Tax will be introduced from 1 April 2022 to encourage the use of recycled plastic in packaging, and in turn stimulate increased levels of recycling and collection of plastic waste, diverting it away from landfill or incineration. It is estimated that this will lead to an increase in the use of recycled plastic by 40% in 2022-23.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 100539 question first answered 13/01/2022 17:30:26 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

418391

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Consumer Rights Act 2015
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to (a) amend and (b) repeal sections of the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	10062
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2015 answer text <p>I have no such plans.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 06/10/2015 13:26:17 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1401321

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	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	Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre
	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 discussions he has had with officials in his Department on the sale of the Vaccine Manufacturing Innovation Centre.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	100674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The Vaccine Taskforce and UK Research and Innovation are working closely with VMIC, which is a private company, to ensure the UK has a strong domestic vaccine manufacturing capability to contribute to the UK’s resilience against COVID-19 and other future health emergencies. At present these discussions are commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 13/01/2022 17:30:36 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1401386

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
	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 9 November 2021 to Question 69687, whether the Government delivered the 20 million covid-19 vaccine doses due to be donated by the Government by the end of 2021 to countries in need.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	100676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>On 30 December. the Government announced that we had met the target to donate 30 million COVID-19 vaccines by the end of 2021. We also reiterated our plan for millions more vaccines to be sent to other countries in 2022, including 20 million more Oxford-AstraZeneca doses and 20 million Janssen doses.</p><p> </p><p>Of the over 30 million vaccines we have donated; approximately 25.4m have been received by COVAX, and 5.5m have been delivered directly by the UK to countries in need. These donations have benefitted more than 30 countries. The majority, 23.3m, of these donations have now arrived at their final destination, with 7.6 million of the doses received by COVAX that remain to be shipped to recipient countries in the next few weeks.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to life saving vaccine, the Government have also recently pledged £105m of UK emergency aid to help vulnerable countries tackle Omicron, with a particular focus on Africa.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 13/01/2022 17:30:47 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

418451

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Cancer Drugs Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the decision by NHS England announced on 4 September 2015 to remove (a) the pancreatic cancer drug Abraxane and (b) 22 other drugs and indications from the Cancer Drugs Fund list of approved drugs.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	10091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made. We remain committed to continuing to invest in the Cancer Drugs Fund which has so far benefitted over 72,000 people with cancer in England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We understand that NHS England continues to work with manufacturers seeking to maintain drug and indication combinations within the Fund.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>NHS England has confirmed that patients who are already receiving a drug/indication which is to be removed from the Fund will continue to be treated with that drug until they and their clinicians consider it appropriate to discontinue treatment. In addition, drugs removed from the Fund will continue to be available via Individual Funding Requests if the individual patient meets clinical exceptionality criteria.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 16/09/2015 15:22:40 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1547434

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2022
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Chief Scientific Advisers
	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 meetings (a) they and (b) other Ministers in their Department have had with the Department's Chief Scientific Adviser from (i) 1 December 2021 to 28 February 2022, (ii) 1 March to 31 May 2022 and (iii) 1 June to 31 August 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Tunbridge Wells
	tabling member printed	Greg Clark
	uin	100915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) draws from a range of scientific advice and expertise. I meet with both the BEIS Chief Scientific Adviser and the Government Chief Scientific Adviser regularly. In line with the practice of successive administrations, details of internal meetings are not normally disclosed.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 09/12/2022 10:06:42 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark