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767326

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	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: Food
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total amount of food waste generated by BEIS offices for each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
	uin	HL1744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The total amount of food waste generated by BEIS offices for each of the last five years is shown in the attached table. Entries shaded in grey are estimates.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 17/10/2017 15:30:58 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name HL1744-table.docx title BEIS food waste statistics
	tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

767735

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	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: Technology
	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 support his Department provides to small businesses for the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	106492
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>Through the Industrial Strategy, we are working with UK industry to support small businesses to flourish and grow across the UK. Alongside the government’s Digital Strategy it will provide the conditions to ensure the UK is the best place to start and grow a digital business, trial a new technology, or undertake advanced research.</p><p>We are providing support to innovate and adopt through the UK’s R&amp;D Tax Credits scheme: in 2014/15 a total of 20,935 companies, of which over 18,000 were SMEs, claimed £2.45 billion of relief from £21.8 billion of R&amp;D expenditure.</p><p>Government has established a network of Catapult Centres to help business commercialise new and emerging technologies in areas where there are large global market opportunities and a critical mass of UK capability to take advantage. This includes the Digital and High Value Manufacturing catapults which are already providing support to business to develop and exploit Industry 4.0 technologies.</p><p>Innovate UK funding is supporting development of Industry 4.0 technologies through its competitions. In its recent Manufacturing &amp; Materials competition, Innovate UK has funded 4 projects, all lead by SMEs in the area of Digital Manufacturing, for a total of £2.25m. In addition, Innovate UK has just approved £180k to fund an extension of the Knowledge Transfer Network’s 4Manufacturing initiative until the end of March 2018, to enable manufacturing SMEs and their supply chains become more productive through the adoption of innovative Industry 4.0 technology.</p><p>The Challenger Business Programme identifies the barriers to the growth of innovative businesses across the economy; and works collaboratively with businesses, regulators and other partners to remove these. The Programme has already worked directly with over 400 businesses and going forwards we will work with many more.</p><p>We have asked Juergen Maier, as part of the Industrial Strategy, to conduct a review to conduct a review of Industrial Digitalisation with a strong focus on how UK SMEs can realise the benefits of Industry4.0 technologies. We look forward to the results of that review over the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/10/2017 16:36:03 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 14143 answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

768242

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2017
	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	Boilers
	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 support is available for low income and vulnerable households whose gas boilers have been condemned to repair or replace those boilers.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	106936
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The primary support relating to energy efficient measures for low income and vulnerable households is the Energy Company Obligation, which is worth £640m per year. In April 2017 we reformed the scheme, so that 70% of the support is directed at low income and vulnerable households. Gas boiler replacement and repair is permitted under the scheme. We expect around 37,000 boilers to be replaced under the existing scheme which runs to October 2018.</p><p>The industry initiative element of the Warm Home Discount scheme allows obligated energy suppliers to work with third parties to offer energy and thermal efficiency measures to low income, fuel poor households. This includes repairing or replacing boilers where this can be shown to improve the efficiency of energy use in the consumer’s home.</p><p>Consumers living in rented accommodation should contact their landlord in the first instance if they have problems with their heating system and many of the energy suppliers offer support through their duties to have a regard for vulnerable customers.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/10/2017 16:37:00 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 15242 answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

768243

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2017
	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	Housing: Heating
	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 information his Department holds on how many households in (a) Barnsley, (b) Yorkshire and (c) the UK are without effective space heating or capacity to heat water.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	106937
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy holds data on the physical characters of properties in England only, which has been collected and supplied by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). The table below shows the number of households and proportion of households that do not have an effective heating system in place for space heating.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Space heating</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of households</p></td><td><p>Proportion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>520,800</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>53,000</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>An effective heating system here is considered as either a central heating system or storage heaters being fitted and present. Figures are not available for water heating as all heating systems are considered effective under this definition. Data is not available by Local Authority.</p><p>Figures are based on the data behind the fuel poverty statistics which can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-detailed-tables-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-detailed-tables-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/10/2017 16:36:30 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 15243 answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

765632

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	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	Renewable Heat Incentive 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 notice period his Department gave to the industry before the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme and Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2017 came into force.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	105813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department announced these changes in a response to consultation published on 16 December 2016. The Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2017 were laid on 30 August 2017 and came into force on 20 September 2017.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/10/2017 15:42:49 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

765534

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	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	Business: Energy
	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 establishing an industrial energy efficiency scheme to help large companies install measures to reduce their energy use and bills.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	105969
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The Clean Growth strategy, which the Department published on 12<sup>th</sup> October, reiterated the Government’s objective to protect UK companies against high energy costs. It also confirmed the manifesto commitment to establish an Industrial Energy Efficiency Scheme to help companies cut their energy use and bills, which would support this. The Department is considering options for such a scheme. We will provide more details by the end of the year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/10/2017 15:35:26 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 13878 answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

767738

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	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	Property: Ownership
	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 recent assessment he has made of the extent of offshore ownership of UK freeholds.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	106465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>In March 2016, HM Land Registry published, for free, information on registered land in England and Wales that was owned by overseas companies. Updates to this data set have been available at a charge and the datasets (both free and chargeable) are accessible at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hm-land-registry-overseas-companies-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hm-land-registry-overseas-companies-data</a>.</p><p>As part of the government’s housing white paper, <em>Fixing our broken housing market</em>, HM Land Registry committed to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data. This will include releasing later this year, free of charge, the updated overseas company ownership data set.</p><p>This open approach to data will better support development, ensure financial stability, collection of taxes, law enforcement and the protection of national security.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 17/10/2017 16:38:05 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

767298

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	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	Bombardier: Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what financial support they provided to Bombardier Aircraft Division for the "C" Series aircraft; what was the amount of that support; and when that support was forthcoming, and under what terms.
	tabling member printed	Lord Empey
	uin	HL1716
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The UK Government's Repayable Launch Investment of £113.37 million to support Bombardier Aerospace (Shorts) in the design and development of the C Series aircraft wings was notified to the European Commission on 19 December 2008; and was approved on 18 June 2009.</p><p><br>Terms of the repayable launch investment are commercially sensitive.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL1717 question first answered 17/10/2017 15:45:35 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

767299

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	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	Bombardier: Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether monies provided by them to Bombardier Aircraft Division for the "C" Series aircraft were examined for compliance with EU state aid rules; and, if so, with what result.
	tabling member printed	Lord Empey
	uin	HL1717
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The UK Government's Repayable Launch Investment of £113.37 million to support Bombardier Aerospace (Shorts) in the design and development of the C Series aircraft wings was notified to the European Commission on 19 December 2008; and was approved on 18 June 2009.</p><p><br>Terms of the repayable launch investment are commercially sensitive.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL1716 question first answered 17/10/2017 15:45:35 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

767938

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2017
	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	Business: Billing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 29 June (HL53), stating that the Payment Practices Reporting online service will be available for users to begin reporting their payment practices from October, whether that online service has yet been launched and advertised; and out of the estimated 15,200 businesses in scope to comply with the payment practices and performance reporting requirements, how many have so far been issued an invitation to use the service.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL1857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The Payment Practices Reporting online service has been launched on the GOV.UK website, and is now available to all businesses in scope of the requirements without the need for an invitation. The Department is now working to raise awareness of the existence of the service, including by contacting business representative bodies. Before the service was launched, 350 invitations were issued. The Department does not hold information on how many of these invitations were issued to businesses in scope of the requirement.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 17/10/2017 15:29:44 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn