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731750

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	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	Small Businesses: Inverclyde
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the Government will bring the Small Business Saturday 2017 roadshow to Inverclyde.
	tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
	tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
	uin	627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The organisation of Small Business Saturday is managed by Small Business Saturday UK. To request a visit to Inverclyde you can contact them via their website <a href="https://smallbusinesssaturdayuk.com/" target="_blank">https://smallbusinesssaturdayuk.com</a>.</p><p>The Department is fully supportive of the Small Business Saturday campaign and recognises the role it plays in highlighting the importance of small businesses to the local community and the UK as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 27/06/2017 15:15:32 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

732766

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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	Tidal Lagoons Independent 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, what progress his Department has made on implementing the recommendations of the Hendry Review on Tidal Lagoons.
	tabling member constituency	Gloucester
	tabling member printed	Richard Graham
	uin	900033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>I congratulate my Hon. Friend for his continued advocacy on tidal lagoons.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are making progress on assessing the recommendations of the Hendry Review. As my Hon. Friend will be aware, the issues are complex, as they relate to an untried technology in the marine environment. It is important we understand the costs and challenges posed by this technology in relation to its possible role in the UK’s energy mix and potential environmental impact.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 27/06/2017 15:27:34 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

731799

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	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	Solar Power
	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 encourage greater use of solar panels; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
	tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
	uin	710
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>Solar PV is a UK success story, with rapid deployment over the last 7 years, over 99% of the UK’s solar PV capacity has been deployed since May 2010.</p><p>We are exceeding our historic projections on solar deployment. In 2013 we estimated that solar capacity would reach 10-12GW by 2020. We now expect Government support to bring forward around 13 GW by 2020. Support for solar comes directly from people's bills, so when costs come down, so should support. Therefore we have taken steps to control the costs of support schemes and put solar on a path to delivering without subsidy.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 27/06/2017 13:36:20 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

731764

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	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	Energy: Meters
	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 households are using a pre-payment meter for electricity and gas in (a) the Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	619
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Department collects data on the method of payment for domestic gas and electricity customers by public electricity supply (PES) region from a survey of energy suppliers. From this, data is not available by parliamentary constituency; however, Linlithgow and East Falkirk falls within the South Scotland PES region which is provided below instead. Gas data is only collected for Great Britain not the United Kingdom.</p><p>The proportion of, and number of, households on pre-payment meters are estimated as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Gas</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Electricity</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Proportion</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>Proportion</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Scotland</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>260,000</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>360,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>320,000</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>500,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GB/UK</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td><p>3,100,000</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td><td><p>4,200,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>This is published as part of our quarterly energy prices publication: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-price-stastics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-price-stastics</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 27/06/2017 13:36:44 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

731766

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	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	Small Businesses: Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	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 micro-enterprises in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	621
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>Support for businesses in Scotland is largely a devolved matter, and <a href="https://www.mygov.scot/business/" target="_blank">https://www.mygov.scot/business/</a> provides advice to people starting, running and growing a business, including a section on funding and grants in Scotland. In addition, British Business Bank (BBB) programmes are supporting finance to smaller businesses. One of the main programmes – administered by the Start-Up Loans Company - is supporting 70 start-up loans worth £283k in the Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency.</p><p>Microbusinesses in Scotland also benefit from UK-wide initiatives to encourage investment, for example the Enterprise Investment Scheme and the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme. If they have business premises, microbusinesses will also benefit from the Small Business Bonus Scheme and receive 100% relief on their rates bill for property valued below £10,000.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 27/06/2017 15:12:44 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

732763

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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	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 assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the sector-based approach in delivering the aims of the Government's industrial strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Liz Twist
	uin	900040
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>I’m sure the Hon. Member will agree that the UK economy benefits from world-leading sectors and that building on their strengths is crucial as we develop our modern industrial strategy.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses know how best to boost their parts of the economy, which is why we have issued an open invitation to any sector to propose ambitious Sector Deals with Government.</p><p> </p><p>I am delighted work is progressing on a number of early sector deals.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 27/06/2017 15:20:36 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	4618 label Biography information for Liz Twist

732338

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2017
	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	Self-employed
	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 people who are incorrectly classified as self employed in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	933
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>Determining employment status can be complicated and is based on the reality of each working relationship. Government has not made an estimate of the numbers of people in each status, but shares concerns regarding insecure work. This is why in October 2016 my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister asked Matthew Taylor to carry out an independent review to consider employment practices and whether they need to change to keep pace with modern business models. We understand that Matthew Taylor is working to complete his report at the moment, and expect it to be published soon.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 27/06/2017 15:11:45 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

732316

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2017
	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	Green Investment Bank: Privatisation
	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 the cost has been to date to his Department and the Green Investment Bank (GIB) of privatising that bank; and what the projected cost to his Department and the GIB is of privatising that bank up until the point at which the sale is finalised.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	887
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government will provide a full report to Parliament following completion of the transaction.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/06/2017 15:14:20 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

732767

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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	Sharing Economy
	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 the Government has made of the effect of precarious work on the workforce.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
	tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
	uin	900032
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>Atypical work arrangements, alongside traditional full-time employment, play a valuable role in today’s labour market.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is live to the issues that come with new ways of working.</p><p> </p><p>That is why Matthew Taylor was asked to undertake his independent review of modern employment practices, which is considering job security amongst a range of issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 27/06/2017 15:24:58 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

731561

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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	Training: Leave
	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 his policy is on leave for training for all employees.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	494
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to testing ambitious new approaches to career learning and training for people in work and returning to work, as announced in the Budget. More detailed proposals will be set out in due course.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 27/06/2017 14:41:28 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner