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804623

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	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: Price Caps
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What the timetable is for the implementation of an energy price cap.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	902901
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government will legislate at the earliest possible opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>The draft Bill is currently undergoing scrutiny by the BEIS Select Committee.</p><p> </p><p>We would hope for cross-party support for this Bill and a quick passage through Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>The Bill allows for Ofgem to consult on its proposed methodology and draft licence condition while the Bill is being progressed through Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 12/12/2017 13:58:14 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

804622

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	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	Batteries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he has taken to support the development of improved battery technology for (a) electric vehicles and (b) energy storage.
	tabling member constituency	South Suffolk
	tabling member printed	James Cartlidge
	uin	902900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>This Government wants the UK to lead the world in design, development and manufacture of batteries, particularly for electric vehicles. That is why we committed £246 million for the Faraday Battery Challenge, including £80 million for the National Faraday Battery Scale-up Facility.</p><p> </p><p>Our 2017 Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan supports deployment of batteries on our energy system by removing barriers, opening markets and committing £70 million of innovation funding for smart systems, including storage.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 12/12/2017 14:00:21 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge

795378

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2017
	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	Prince Harry: Weddings
	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 he plans to designate a public holiday to mark the occasion of the marriage of HRH Prince Henry and Ms Meghan Markle.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast East
	tabling member printed	Gavin Robinson
	uin	115799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government offers warmest congratulations to HRH Prince Harry and Miss Meghan Markle upon their engagement. As has previously been announced, there are no plans for a bank holiday for the wedding.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 30/11/2017 15:45:26 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4360 label Biography information for Gavin Robinson

793027

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	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	Insolvency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union with reference to his Department's paper Providing a cross-border civil judicial cooperation framework: a future partnership, published in August 2017, what steps he is taking to ensure that UK insolvency and restructuring procedures and judgements will continue to be recognised across the EU after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	114812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s Civil Judicial Cooperation Future Partnership Paper of August 2017 makes clear that an effective framework of civil judicial cooperation, which includes insolvency law, is an important part of the deep and special partnership we want to establish with the EU. It is in the interests of the UK and the EU that there continues to be an effective framework for resolving cross-border legal disputes after we leave.</p><p>This will provide confidence and certainty to families, business and individuals, ensuring they can continue to settle cross-border disputes efficiently and effectively in the future. The current rules, on which we hope to model a new agreement, provide a legal route to resolving often difficult or desperate situations.</p><p>The exact future relationship between the EU and UK on civil judicial cooperation, including the recognition of insolvency and restructuring procedures and judgments, is subject to negotiations with our EU partners.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 27/11/2017 11:20:26 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

803002

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2017
	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	Tesco: Booker Group
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the proposed merger of Tesco and Booker wholesale, what representations he has received on the potential of a price advantage being gained by for Booker in the wholesale food sector.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	118422
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>Competition investigations into mergers are a matter for the independent Competition and Markets Authority.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 13/12/2017 15:46:18 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

794128

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2017
	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 Business Commissioner
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the proceedings of the Sixth Delegated Legislation Committee of 21 November 2017, whether the Small Business Commissioner has the capacity to name and shame those businesses which only pay their suppliers after a contractually agreed date; what plans his Department has to review the performance of the (a) Grocery Code Adjudicator, (b) Pubs Code Adjudicator and (c) Small Business Commissioner; and what progress with the Grocery Code Adjudicator was referred to during those proceedings.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	115216
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>The Small Business Commissioner has the capacity to name and shame, or name and praise, businesses which have been the subject of an investigated complaint. The details of the complaints scheme, including factors that the Commissioner will consider when deciding whether to name a business, are set out in the draft Small Business Commissioner (Scope and Scheme) Regulations.</p><p> </p><p>(a) Under the Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013, the Groceries Code Adjudicator’s performance will be reviewed every three years. The first was carried out in October 2016 and the findings were published on 19<sup>th</sup> July 2017. The next review will cover the period to 31 March 2019.</p><p>(b) Under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, the operation of the Pubs Code and performance of the Pubs Code Adjudicator will be periodically reviewed. The first review will cover the period to 31 March 2019 and each subsequent review period will cover three years.</p><p>(c) Under the Enterprise Act 2016, the Small Business Commissioner’s performance will be periodically reviewed. The first review will cover the period until 31 March 2020 and each subsequent review period will cover three years.</p><p> </p><p>For all of these statutory reviews, my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State will publish the findings of the review and lay a copy before Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>At the Sixth Delegated Legislation Committee on 21 November 2017, the progress with the Groceries Code Adjudicator I referred to was in relation to the first performance review of the GCA. It found that the Adjudicator is making effective use of her statutory powers and is effectively enforcing the Groceries Code through collaborative working with the large retailers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 27/11/2017 11:23:41 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

794122

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2017
	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 Business Commissioner
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the proceedings of the Sixth Delegated Legislation Committee of 21 November 2017, how many businesses will fall (a) within and (b) outside the remit of the Small Business Commission.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	115210
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>Any business can use the information and guidance provided by the Office of the Small Business Commissioner. For the complaints service, the specifications are set out in the Small Business Commissioner (Scope and Scheme) 2017 regulations, under which businesses with fewer than 50 employees will be eligible to submit a complaint.</p>According to data on business population estimates published by the Department in October 2016, 99.3% of the 5.5 million private sector businesses were small businesses and 99.9% were small or medium-sized (SMEs).<p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 27/11/2017 11:26:27 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

797495

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2017
	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: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union to the House of Lords European Union Committee on 31 October, how many civil servants his Department (a) has recruited and (b) expects to recruit to work on leaving the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	116458
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>Teams across the Department are working on delivering a successful EU exit. As of 31 October, BEIS recruited an additional 269 staff and is currently recruiting for a further c.170.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 04/12/2017 14:56:41 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

795703

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2017
	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	Carbon Capture and Storage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the contract awarded in February 2017 to Pale Blue Dot to review business models for carbon dioxide transport and storage, whether this work has been completed.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	116057
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department commissioned Pale Blue Dot Energy Ltd to undertake a study ‘CO<sub>2</sub> transport and storage: Review of business models (Phase 1)’. This work has now been completed and the report will be published on gov.uk in January 2018.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 05/12/2017 16:16:12 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

805474

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	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	Industrial Design: Intellectual Property
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the UK's ratification of The Geneva Act (1999) of the Hague Agreement concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on the ability of UK businesses to register their designs internationally.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	119145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government intends to ratify the Hague Agreement to join the international system in a national capacity, which will ensure UK designers are able to register their designs internationally after the UK leaves the EU.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 18/12/2017 15:36:07 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson