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1146779

	registered interest
	date	27/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to improve road connectivity between South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	291576
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The first Road Investment Strategy committed to an investment package worth over £170 million for existing Sheffield-Manchester connections to address safety and congestion issues, and improve journey times. Highways England has announced a preferred route which covers the:</p><ul><li><p>Mottram Moor link road;</p></li><li><p>A57(T) to A57 link road;</p></li><li><p>A616/A61(T) Westwood roundabout; and,</p></li><li><p>Safety and technology improvements along the route.</p></li></ul><p>The Department for Transport, in conjunction with Highways England and Transport for the North, is undertaking a study looking at the long term strategic road connection requirements to link the areas of Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire to transform journeys and enhance connectivity across the southern Pennines. This includes consideration of a trans-Pennine tunnel. The study is expected to report in spring 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 07/10/2019 12:32:37 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1171397

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Climate Change
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of climate change on the work of his Department; and what steps he is taking in response to that effect.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Darren Jones
	uin	4446
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Transport (DfT) works closely with its operators on risk assessment and mitigation measures for transport infrastructure. DfT contributed to the Government’s National Adaption Programme 2018 and Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017. These two documents set out Government’s adaptation measures and predicated climate change impacts nationally. DfT is continuing to work with transport operators and delivery partners to increase climate resilience in the planning and design of transport infrastructure and will keep incorporating adaptation into its strategies.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Government is committed to delivering a net zero emission transport system, which will deliver wider benefits for the UK and its citizens, as soon as possible. These benefits include improved air quality and public health, new opportunities for economic growth and high-quality jobs in clean growth, as well as a sustainable and more efficient transport system. The forthcoming Transport Decarbonisation Plan will set out our bold and ambitious policies for transport to ensure the transport sector plays its part in ending the UK’s contribution to climate change by 2050.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 24/01/2020 14:56:18 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1355441

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2021
	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, whether his Department has placed advance purchase orders for (a) next-generation universal coronavirus or (b) nasal-spray covid-19 vaccines.
	tabling member constituency	Wycombe
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
	uin	49110
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2021 answer text <p>The UK government has secured early access to 332 million vaccines doses through supply agreements with five separate vaccine developers. This includes agreements with:</p><ul><li>Pfizer/BioNTech for 135​ million doses</li><li>University of Oxford/AstraZeneca for 100 million doses</li><li>Moderna for 17 million doses</li><li>Novavax for 60 million doses</li><li>Janssen for 20 million doses.</li></ul><p> </p><p>We have not purchased any next-generation universal coronavirus or nasal-spray covid-19 vaccines; however, the Vaccine Taskforce keeps our portfolio and emerging vaccines under review.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 22/09/2021 16:41:14 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1355457

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2021
	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, how many covid-19 vaccines his Department has ordered for delivery in each year of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Wycombe
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
	uin	49116
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2021 answer text <p>The UK government has secured early access to 332 million vaccines doses through supply agreements with five separate vaccine developers. This includes agreements with:</p><ul><li>Pfizer/BioNTech for 135​ million doses</li><li>University of Oxford/AstraZeneca for 100 million doses</li><li>Moderna for 17 million doses</li><li>Novavax for 60 million doses</li><li>Janssen for 20 million doses</li></ul><p>Of these, Pfizer/BioNTech, University of Oxford/AstraZeneca and Moderna vaccines have received MHRA regulatory approval and are currently in deployment in the UK. The Janssen vaccine has also received regulatory approval and deliveries are expected later this year. The Novavax vaccine is yet to receive regulatory approval, so timings for delivery are dependent on this.</p><p>Due to commercial sensitivities, we are not able to provide detailed timelines for delivery.</p><p>We are in regular contact with the vaccine manufacturers and are confident in our vaccine supplies going into the autumn/ winter, having already secured the doses we need for everyone in the UK who requires a booster.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 22/09/2021 16:42:13 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1357089

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2021
	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	Water Power
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent steps his Department has taken to support opportunities arising from marine energy.
	tabling member constituency	Gloucester
	tabling member printed	Richard Graham
	uin	903550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2021 answer text <p>On Monday 13 September we confirmed that wave and tidal stream projects will be eligible to compete in this year’s Contracts for Difference allocation round. We continue to assess a range of marine technologies following our Call for Evidence on marine energy.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 21/09/2021 11:46:50 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

1452937

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2022
	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: Artificial Intelligence
	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 13 November 2020 to Question 112077, Artificial Intelligence, what progress has been made with each of the items listed.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	143727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>A progress update where available (in italics) on each of the items in the answer I gave the Hon. Member on 13 November 2022 to Question 112077 can be found below.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS are exploring AI and machine learning techniques internally to enable more efficient working. Projects are being</p><p>(i) Undertaken:</p><ul><li>A proof of concept for the use of virtual assistants to help staff find information regarding corporate policies, whereby the assistant will improve by learning from the enquires responses. <em>An HR chatbot was developed as a proof of concept.</em></li><li>Planning a proof of concept using Machine Learning for automatic labelling, setting up retention periods for past and future documents that form the official record. <em>A small-scale proof of concept was undertaken in Spring 2021 using a &quot;machine teaching&quot; tool to automate content processing and data classification to help identify information of value within a digital heap.</em></li></ul><p>(ii) Considered:</p><ul><li>The use of AI handling of inbound enquiries into the department to create draft responses and to triage requests to the correct teams. <em>An enquiries service using an AI builder to automatically categorise emails was developed as a proof of concept.</em></li></ul><p> </p><p>BEIS Analysts use machine learning techniques, under the umbrella of artificial intelligence, where appropriate as part of analysis supporting policy development.</p><p>Machine Learning projects are being</p><p>(i) Undertaken:</p><ul><li>Identifying the location of industrial strengths. <em>Report on this has been published</em></li><li>Pilot for targeting communications about business support</li><li>Categorising internal documents by subject. <em>Currently exploring feasibility for implementation</em></li><li>Project to understand the labour market through analysing job adverts<em>. Methodology shared with OGDs and academics</em></li><li>A pilot for organising internal processes<em>. Process implemented</em></li></ul><p> </p><p>(ii) Considered:</p><ul><li>A pilot for predicting economic impacts using real time indicators</li><li>Exploring automatic text generation <em>a pilot exploring natural language processing approaches for extracting economic intelligence</em></li><li>Planning to repeat a machine learning exercise on HMRC data to identify high growth potential businesses, to build on the successful ‘DECA pilot’ of 2019. This would underpin further operations in 2021, depending on the outcome of the SR process. <em>DECA activities have pivoted to other government priorities.</em></li></ul><p>BEIS policy teams are exploring the use of Artificial Intelligence. AI projects are being considered by the Better Regulation Executive who are looking to convert the stock of regulatory requirements placed on business into machine readable code and pilot hosting this as open source a metadata set on the ‘Open Regulation Platform’ (ORP), freely available on The National Archives GOV.UK platform. The project is currently in discovery phase to identify all data that government holds on regulatory obligations that could be relevant for this platform. This application is closely related to work that has already been undertaken as part of BEIS GovTech challenge to apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) to understand the cumulative impact of regulation. <em>The Open Regulation Platform project is currently at the private beta stage.</em></p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 24/03/2022 17:17:28 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1452942

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2022
	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	Land Registry: Artificial Intelligence
	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 10 November 2020 to Question 112078, Land Registry: Artificial Intelligence, what progress has been made by the Land Registry on exploring new and emerging technologies including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning through its Digital Street research and development project.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	143729
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>HM Land Registry (HMLR) is already using machine learning to enable its caseworkers to compare documents more efficiently, to make the Land Register increasingly machine readable and to accelerate the migration of Local Authority data as part of the Local Land Charges programme.</p><p> </p><p>HMLR’s Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21 includes an update on the Digital Street research and development programme and is available on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 24/03/2022 16:41:36 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1452944

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2022
	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	Shared Services Connected and UK Shared Business Services
	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 (a) civil servants, (b) public servants in UK Shared Business Services and (c) private sector workers in Shared Services Connected Ltd work on shared services within the shared service matrix cluster.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	143731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>The Matrix shared service cluster was introduced as part of the Government Business Services “Shared Services Strategy for Government” in March 2021. A programme team has been put in place to develop a business case and secure a budget for the implementation of the shared service centre for the cluster.</p><p>The current number of civil servants that work directly on transactional shared services is c.80.</p><p>UK Shared Business Services provide shared services, including to BEIS and DIT. The number of public servants in UK Shared Business Services is c.640.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 24/03/2022 16:40:06 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1453234

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2022
	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	UK Shared Business Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which Departments within the Shared Service Matrix Cluster have in-house shared services; and from which offices those shared services are conducted.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	144948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>Matrix shared services cluster is formed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Department for International Trade (DIT), Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Cabinet Office (CO) in a first wave of rapid adopters, followed by Department for Education (DfE), Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and Her Majesty’s Treasury (HMT).</p><p> </p><p>The following Departments have Department-defined in-house shared services:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport</strong>: The DCMS definition of shared services is provided by a combination of Outsource and Insource provision. HR transactional services (excluding payroll) are provided in-house across a geographically dispersed team, with people located in</p><ul><li>Edinburgh</li><li>London</li><li>Manchester</li><li>Newcastle</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Department for Education: </strong>The DfE definition of shared services is services provided by core DfE to other entities. DfE provides services to the core Department and a number of its ALBs. DfE staff are based in the offices below and the teams that operate our shared service provision are split site, with teams spanning multiple offices.</p><ul><li>Bristol</li><li>Exeter</li><li>Coventry</li><li>Croydon</li><li>Darlington</li><li>Leeds</li><li>London</li><li>Manchester</li><li>Newcastle</li><li>Nottingham</li><li>Sheffield</li><li>Watford</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Department of Health and Social Care:</strong> The DHSC definition of shared services is provided by core DHSC. DHSC staff are geographically dispersed, with people located in:</p><p>- London</p><p>- Leeds.</p><p> </p><p><strong>HM Treasury</strong>: The HMT definition of shared services is provided by Treasury Group Shared Service centre to HM Treasury and its ALBs. Staff are geographically dispersed, with people located in:</p><p>- Norwich</p><p>- London.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 28/03/2022 14:11:39 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1453560

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2022
	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	Shared Services Connected and UK Shared Business Services
	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 plans to transfer shared service matrix cluster (a) staff and (b) work out of (i) UK Shared Business Services and (ii) Shared Services Connected Ltd to a new provider.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	145902
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>The Matrix shared services cluster will create a single shared service centre with a single technology and a single service provider, in line with the Government Shared Services Strategy. Current plans are that the Matrix shared services cluster will be formed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Cabinet Office in a first wave of rapid adopters, followed by the Department for Education, the Department of Health and Social Care, the Attorney General’s Office, and HM Treasury.</p><p> </p><p>A programme team has been put in place to develop a business case and secure a budget for the implementation of the shared service centre for the cluster. Until a budget is secured, and a business case approved, any figures or options are only tentative and subject to finalising the scope and approach for the programme. Current options being considered include in-sourcing, UK Shared Business Services as provider and using a new provider. The business case will explore the merits of the options in line with standard Government practice, so all options remain a possibility, including those listed above.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 28/03/2022 14:22:53 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens