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943064

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2018
	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	Conditions of Employment: EU Action
	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 the Government plans to support the proposal for a Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions Directive.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	165047
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions Directive is still being negotiated in the European Union. The UK supported the General Approach, the preliminary agreement by Council, on the Directive at EPSCO in June this year. We hope to be able to support the adoption of the final version of the Directive when it comes back to Council in due course.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 23/07/2018 14:43:47 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

943099

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2018
	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	Modern Working Practices 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, when he plans to publish the Government’s response to the Taylor Report consultations.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	165049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>In the Government Response to the Taylor Review, we set out our commitment to take forward recommendations to improve clarity on employment status, boost protections for agency workers and increase state enforcement of basic rights for vulnerable workers.</p><p> </p><p>We received over 420 detailed responses to the consultations. These will help shape how best to implement the recommendations and achieve change that works for all. We are currently analysing the responses and will respond in due course.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 23/07/2018 14:42:59 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

971468

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2018
	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	Digital 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 assessment he has made of trends in the level of digital monopolies.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	172586
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Responsibility for identifying market-wide competition issues falls to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s independent competition authority. The Government recently announced an expert panel to look at competition in the digital economy. Its role includes providing an independent voice on digital markets to support the ongoing review of competition law, details of which were set out in the Modernising Consumer Markets green paper.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 13/09/2018 15:16:05 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1019477

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	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	Bargain Booze: Post Offices
	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 post office counters were located in a Bargain Booze off-license in the last eight years; and what estimate his Department has made of the number of those Bargain Booze off-licenses that have subsequently closed down.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	198340
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the critical role that post offices play in communities and for small businesses across the UK. This is why the Government committed to safeguard the post office network and protect existing rural services. The overall number of post offices across the UK remains at its most stable in decades with over 11,500 branches thanks to significant Government investment of over £2 billion since 2010.</p><p>While the Government sets the strategic direction for the Post Office, it allows the company the commercial freedom to deliver this strategy as an independent business. The distribution of branches is an operational matter of commercial judgement for Post Office management team. I have therefore asked Paula Vennells, the Group Chief Executive of Post Office Limited, to write to the hon Member on this matter. A copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of the House.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 06/12/2018 16:03:02 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1019478

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	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	Bargain Booze: Post Offices
	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 of the post office counters located in Bargain Booze off-licenses that closed in the last eight years were relocated; and at what financial cost was of those relocations.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	198341
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the critical role that post offices play in communities and for small businesses across the UK. This is why the Government committed to safeguard the post office network and protect existing rural services. The overall number of post offices across the UK remains at its most stable in decades with over 11,500 branches thanks to significant Government investment of over £2 billion since 2010.</p><p>While the Government sets the strategic direction for the Post Office, it allows the company the commercial freedom to deliver this strategy as an independent business. The distribution of branches is an operational matter of commercial judgement for Post Office management team. I have therefore asked Paula Vennells, the Group Chief Executive of Post Office Limited, to write to the hon Member on this matter. A copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of the House.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 06/12/2018 16:03:09 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1019479

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	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	WH Smith: Post Offices
	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 of the 41 Crown post offices in dedicated premises that are earmarked to be franchised and relocated to WH Smith have Applicant Enrolment Identification (AEI) machines; and how many of those AEI machines will be relocated.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	198342
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the critical role that post offices play in communities and for small businesses across the UK. This is why the Government committed to safeguard the post office network and protect existing rural services. The overall number of post offices across the UK remains at its most stable in decades with over 11,500 branches thanks to significant Government investment of over £2 billion since 2010.</p><p>While the Government sets the strategic direction for the Post Office, it allows the company the commercial freedom to deliver this strategy as an independent business. The distribution of branches is an operational matter of commercial judgement for Post Office management team. I have therefore asked Paula Vennells, the Group Chief Executive of Post Office Limited, to write to the hon Member on this matter. A copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of the House.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 06/12/2018 16:03:17 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1019481

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	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	Post Offices: Closures
	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 his Department has made of the financial effect on local (a) businesses and (b) communities of the closure of dedicated post office premises on the high street.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	198344
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the critical role that post offices play in communities and for small businesses across the UK. This is why the Government committed to safeguard the post office network and protect existing rural services. The overall number of post offices across the UK remains at its most stable in decades with over 11,500 branches thanks to significant Government investment of over £2 billion since 2010.</p><p>While the Government sets the strategic direction for the Post Office, it allows the company the commercial freedom to deliver this strategy as an independent business. The distribution of branches is an operational matter of commercial judgement for Post Office management team. I have therefore asked Paula Vennells, the Group Chief Executive of Post Office Limited, to write to the hon Member on this matter. A copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of the House.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 10/12/2018 17:53:17 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1019782

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	Post Offices
	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 of the network of 11,500 post offices are currently suspended.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	198865
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the critical role that post offices play in communities and for small businesses across the UK. This is why the Government committed to safeguard the post office network and protect existing rural services. The overall number of post offices across the UK remains at its most stable in decades with over 11,500 branches thanks to significant Government investment of over £2 billion since 2010.</p><p>While the Government sets the strategic direction for the Post Office, it allows the company the commercial freedom to deliver this strategy as an independent business. The distribution of branches is an operational matter of commercial judgement for Post Office management team. I have therefore asked Paula Vennells, the Group Chief Executive of Post Office Limited, to write to the hon Member on this matter. A copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of the House.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 10/12/2018 17:50:39 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1042358

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2019
	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	Shops: Closures
	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 holds statistics on the number of stores that closed in each quarter in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	209374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy does not carry statistics on the number of stores closing in each quarter.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 22/01/2019 12:10:06 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst previous answer version 96531 answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1047092

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	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	Competition and Markets Authority: Finance
	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 additional funding will be made available to the Competitions and Market Authority to fulfil its new role in the enforcement of state aid rules.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	211803
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government provided the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) with £20 million in HM Treasury’s autumn budget for 2019/20. This will ensure the CMA has the resources to prepare for EU exit, and includes funds to fulfil its new role in the enforcement of State aid rules. This funding is in addition to the £23.6m allocated for 2018/19, which specifically included £3.3m provision for the CMA to prepare for its State aid function.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is working with the CMA to ensure they are ready to deliver a robust and independent State aid regulatory function at the point it is required and has every confidence in the CMA’s ability to do so.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 28/01/2019 17:36:45 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens