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1693807

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Stonewall: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department has provided (a) grants and (b) funding to Stonewall in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	17038
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) was established in February 2023 and has not provided any grants or funding to Stonewall since it was formed. For the period prior to the formation of DBT, the question is assumed to refer to the former Department for International Trade. The Department for International Trade made a payment to Stonewall of £2,500 + VAT in financial years 2019/2020 and 2020/2021. These payments were for membership fees as part of Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme. The Department withdrew from the programme in 2021.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 13/03/2024 17:44:56 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1546331

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2022
	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	Civil Service: EU Law
	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 9 November to Question 75765 on Civil Service: EU Law, whether his Department uses the expression out of scope in relation to regulations that were previously unamendable owing to the UK’s membership of the EU.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	98648
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have defined retained EU law in scope of the sunset in clause 1 and 3 of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill. Any retained EU law that is primary legislation or amendments to primary legislation made by EU-derived subordinate legislation, will not be in scope of the sunset. The Bill provides for powers to amend retained EU law.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 07/12/2022 17:06:36 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1546332

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2022
	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	Business: EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of regulatory costs to businesses which arose from their compliance with regulations that originated from the EU prior to the UK's withdrawal from the EU; and if he will place this information in the House of Commons Library.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	98649
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government does not hold this information centrally and on a fully comparable basis, as legislation to implement obligations arising from EU regulations, decisions and directives was exempt from the Better Regulation scrutiny process.</p><p>However, going forwards the Retained EU Law (REUL) programme and related departmental appraisals will seek to assess the costs to business from changes to REUL.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 07/12/2022 17:06:43 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1544547

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2022
	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: EU Law
	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 9 November to Question 75765 on Civil Service: EU Law, how many documents held by his Department relating to past attempts at deregulation contain both the expressions out of scope and business burdens.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	93446
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2022 answer text <p>We are not aware of there ever having been a business burdens depository within BEIS and we are unable to account for across government.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental-wide information within BEIS on the number of individual documents which contain the phrase &quot;out of scope&quot; and &quot;business burdens&quot;, and which relate to previous activity around reducing unnecessary business burdens, could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 30/11/2022 17:04:10 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1544548

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2022
	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: EU Law
	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 9 November to Question 75765 on Civil Service: EU Law, what steps his Department have taken to identify EU-sourced regulations now removable post-Brexit by using as an indicator the expression out of scope.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	93447
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>BEIS has defined retained EU law that is out of scope of the sunset in clause 1 and 3 of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill. Any retained EU law that is primary legislation or amendments to primary legislation made by EU-derived subordinate legislation, will not be in scope of the sunset.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 01/12/2022 14:29:02 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1544552

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2022
	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	Government Departments: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will list the regulatory impact assessments collated by his Department across Government between 2001 and 2015, to which Government Departments contributed individual assessments.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	93451
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2022 answer text <p>All available regulatory impact assessments should be publicly accessible on legislation.gov.uk, alongside the relevant piece of legislation.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 30/11/2022 17:04:35 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1544553

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2022
	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	Government Departments: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will list the (a) directorates and (b) task forces in his Department which (i) initiated and (ii) conducted regulatory impact assessments of submissions by Government Departments in reviewing the regulatory costs and impact associated with new legislation.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	93452
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2022 answer text <p>Each Government Department initiates and conducts its own regulatory impact assessments.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 30/11/2022 17:04:43 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1544554

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2022
	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	Government Departments: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will list the documents audited by his Department between 2001 and 2015, submitted by other Government departments, that included a bar chart entitled current assessment of business burdens, assessed by (a) overall cost (b) share of cost arising from EU sources.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	93453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2022 answer text <p>We are not aware of there ever having been a business burdens depository within BEIS and we are unable to account for across government.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 30/11/2022 17:04:56 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1538166

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2022
	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	Civil Service: EU Law
	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 has been made of the potential use of the civil service working expression out of scope as a reference search mechanism for identifying EU-sourced red tape that was formerly listed as out of bounds for review but may now be open to deregulatory review or repeal.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	75765
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2022 answer text <p>Following the retained EU law (REUL) substance review and published dashboard, there is an ongoing cross-Whitehall exercise to identify how to reform REUL. Where REUL contains a regulation that directly impacts business, we provisionally expect it to contribute to the REUL target.</p><p> </p><p>Before the sunset date, government departments and the devolved administrations will determine which REUL can be reformed to benefit the UK, which can expire, and which should be preserved in domestic law as assimilated law. They will also decide if some REUL should be codified, in order to preserve specific policy effects which are beneficial to keep.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 09/11/2022 17:03:28 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1134261

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Taxis: Assistance Animals
	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 ensure that people who depend on assistance dogs are not rejected by taxis and private hire vehicles.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	268366
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>Taxis and private hire vehicles (PHVs) provide vital services for disabled people, and it is unacceptable for drivers of these vehicles to refuse the carriage of passengers with assistance dogs.</p><p> </p><p>In February, the Government published its response to the report of the Chair of the Task and Finish Group on taxis and PHV licensing, indicating its intention to introduce mandatory disability awareness training as part of National Minimum Standards that will enable everyone, including those travelling with assistance dogs, to reach their destination easily, confidently and at no additional cost.</p><p> </p><p>In the meanwhile, I would urge licensing authorities to use their existing licensing powers to ensure that all taxi and PHV drivers have the knowledge and skills necessary to provide every passenger with the assistance they require.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 01/07/2019 13:28:53 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes