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1015444

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date	27/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Prosperity Fund: Environment Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the effect on the environment of the (a) official development assistance and (b) non-official development assistance (i) components and (ii) programmes of the Prosperity Fund .
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	196252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>Both ODA and non-ODA financed programmes will be subject to independent and objective evaluation of their impacts, both direct and indirect. These evaluations will take place when programmes and their components have moved into implementation and are starting to produce results. Where appropriate, these evaluations will consider environmental impacts; programme maturity has not yet reached the stage where evaluation is appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 04/12/2018 16:27:17 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1015445

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Sustainable Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Prosperity Fund: Annual Report 2017-18, what measures the Government uses to assess the contribution of that fund to the delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (a) 5, (b) 7, (c) 8 and (d) 9 in each country to which the fund is allocated.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	196253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>All programmes are designed to support Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 &amp; SDG 8, while SDG 7 and SDG 9 will apply to a subset of programmes operating in those sectors. The “Monitoring, Reporting, Evaluation &amp; Learning” section of the Prosperity Fund: Annual Report 2017-18 (pg14) outlines portfolio indicators, which will help measure Fund impacts, and often relate directly to SDG ambitions. The Fund has contracted a specialist consortium to provide independent and objective evaluation of how well programmes are contributing to their stated outcomes, impacts, and relevant SDG.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 04/12/2018 16:27:59 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1015446

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Prosperity Fund: Annual Report 2017-18, what steps he is taking to help Departments achieve a rating of good from the International Aid Transparency Initiative.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	196254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Prosperity Fund is committed to meeting the government target of ‘good’ on the International Aid Transparency Index by 2020. The Fund is working closely with DFID policy and Transparency teams, benefiting from their experience and expertise and the International Aid Transparency Initiative to ensure it meets standards for transparency.</p><p> </p><p>The Fund has already begun working towards this target; working with departments, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to publish programme information and financial data on gov.uk. It will continue to work with departments to increase the amount of information published on spend and programmes as it becomes available.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 04/12/2018 16:28:47 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1015447

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Prosperity Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will establish a standard evaluation by which Departments publish their progress on the delivery of programmes funded by the Prosperity Fund.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	196255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The cross-government Joint Funds Unit, as part of the governance processes within the Prosperity Fund, require programmes to submit financial and impact information on a regular basis, including formal annual reviews. These formal requirements have standardised formats that departments and programme teams follow. Departments will publish these annual reviews once complete, in line with government transparency commitments. The first set of programme annual reviews should be published within the next quarter.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the evaluation service, interim programme evaluations will be conducted, which will feed into annual reviews. Independent evaluators will conduct these evaluations, quality assured through DFIDs ‘Equals’ process. Final evaluation reports will be published.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 04/12/2018 16:29:41 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1015834

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
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	Copyright
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the UK will remain in the EU’s regional copyright exhaustion regime following the UK’s exit from the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Clement-Jones
uin	HL11836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Withdrawal Agreement ensures that during the implementation period arrangements for the exhaustion of rights, including copyright, will remain the same. This will provide legal certainty and protect the interests of rights holders. The specifics of our future relationship with the EU after the end of the implementation period will be the subject of detailed negotiations with the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 04/12/2018 14:23:42 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	3396 label Biography information for Lord Clement-Jones

1015836

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
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	Copyright
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is being consulted as part of the Intellectual Property Office’s consultation into the UK’s future copyright exhaustion regime.
tabling member printed	Lord Clement-Jones
uin	HL11837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>All government departments with an expressed interest on this issue, including the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, are being consulted.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 04/12/2018 14:24:08 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	3396 label Biography information for Lord Clement-Jones

1015837

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
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	Copyright: Electronic Publishing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has conducted an impact assessment on allowing the doctrine of exhaustion of rights to apply to ebooks in the same way it does to physical books.
tabling member printed	Lord Clement-Jones
uin	HL11838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The current EU exhaustion regime, which has already been implemented into UK law, will be retained in UK law after the UK leaves the EU, subject to any amendments necessary to ensure it functions appropriately. The Government has no plans to change this regime with regards to ebooks, and so has not conducted impact assessments on any possible changes.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 04/12/2018 14:25:22 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	3396 label Biography information for Lord Clement-Jones

1015838

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
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	Copyright: Electronic Publishing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has any plans to extend the exhaustion of rights principle to ebooks.
tabling member printed	Lord Clement-Jones
uin	HL11839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The current EU exhaustion regime, which has already been implemented into UK law, will be retained in UK law after the UK leaves the EU, subject to any amendments necessary to ensure it functions appropriately. The Government has no plans to change this regime with regards to ebooks.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 04/12/2018 14:26:43 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	3396 label Biography information for Lord Clement-Jones

1015467

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
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	Employment: Electronic Tagging
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 26 November 2018 to Question 191454 on employment: Electronic Tagging, what the Government's policy is on employers microchipping their employees.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	196266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave her on 26th November 2018.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 04/12/2018 17:50:23 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst previous answer version 89690 answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1015483

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
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	Carillion: Insolvency
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 3 September 2018 to Question 168999, if he will expedite the completion and publication of the investigation into the collapse of Carillon by the Official Receiver.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	196121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>A specialist investigation team was set up by the Official Receiver on the making of the winding-up order and, at the request of the Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy, the investigation into the company including analysis of company records, interviews with directors and close liaison with other investigating authorities is being expedited.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 04/12/2018 17:56:44 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett