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1124602

registered interest
date	02/05/2019
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	National Security Council: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether he has been asked by the Cabinet Office to assess whether there was any illegality involved in the Huawei leak from the National Security Council.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	250479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Attorney General’s role in respect of the Official Secrets Act is confined to granting consent to prosecute as defined in that Act.</p> answering member constituency Torridge and West Devon answering member printed Mr Geoffrey Cox question first answered 09/05/2019 15:00:09 answering member 1508 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Cox
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1124691

registered interest
date	03/05/2019
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Official Secrets Act 1989
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the recent alleged disclosure of information from the National Security Council, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Official Secrets Act.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	250769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The policy responsibility for the operation of the Official Secrets Acts is a matter for the Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p><p>The Attorney General’s role in respect of the Official Secrets Act is confined to granting consent to prosecute as defined in that Act.</p> answering member constituency Torridge and West Devon answering member printed Mr Geoffrey Cox question first answered 09/05/2019 15:01:08 answering member 1508 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Cox
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1124606

registered interest
date	02/05/2019
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	Warm Home Discount Scheme
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 Scope’s report Disability Price Tag 2019, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the Warm Home Discount in line with recent trends in the price of energy.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	250514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>In 2018 we consulted on the level of the Warm Home Discount rebate and decided to maintain the current level in order to provide it to the maximum number of households. Since then, the Government has also taken action to protect 11 million households with the introduction of the energy price cap.</p><p> </p><p>Disabled people on means-tested benefits are eligible under the Broader Group of the Warm Home Discount. The Government is considering how to improve the fuel poverty targeting of the scheme and will be consulting on any proposed changes in due course.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 250515 question first answered 09/05/2019 07:49:42 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1124607

registered interest
date	02/05/2019
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	Warm Home Discount Scheme: Disability
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 Scope’s report Disability Price Tag 2019, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of widening the core eligibility criteria for the Warm Home Discount to include disabled people who are both in and out of work.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	250515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>In 2018 we consulted on the level of the Warm Home Discount rebate and decided to maintain the current level in order to provide it to the maximum number of households. Since then, the Government has also taken action to protect 11 million households with the introduction of the energy price cap.</p><p> </p><p>Disabled people on means-tested benefits are eligible under the Broader Group of the Warm Home Discount. The Government is considering how to improve the fuel poverty targeting of the scheme and will be consulting on any proposed changes in due course.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 250514 question first answered 09/05/2019 07:49:42 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1123886

registered interest
date	30/04/2019
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	Conditions of Employment
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 steps he has taken to increase workers rights.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	249272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>On 17 December 2018 we published the Good Work Plan, which sets out our vision for the future of the labour market and our ambitious plan for implementing the recommendations arising from the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices.</p><p> </p><p>Since publishing the Good Work Plan, we have passed legislation that means:</p><ul><li>All workers receive a day one statement of rights setting out leave entitlements and pay;</li><li>An maximum additional penalty that Employment Tribunals can use quadrupling from £5,000 to £20,000, helping ensure workers are protected from employers who show malice, spite or gross oversight;</li><li>The ending of the Swedish Derogation, the legal loophole that enables some firms to pay agency workers on less than permanent staff, which will benefit up to 120,000 agency workers;</li><li>New agency workers will receive a key facts page before signing up with an agency, providing them with greater clarity, particularly around their pay; and</li><li>The threshold for an information and consultation request being reduced from 10% to 2% of employees, meaning a stronger voice in the workplace.</li></ul><p> </p><p>In delivering the Good Work Plan. we will also:</p><ul><li>Legislate to make improvements to the clarity of employment status tests to reflect the reality of modern working relationships;</li><li>Bring forward proposals for consultation on creating a new, single labour market enforcement agency to better ensure that vulnerable workers are more aware of and can exercise their rights, and that businesses are more supported to comply with the law;</li><li>Enforce holiday pay for vulnerable workers;</li><li>Introduce a right to request a more predictable and stable contract;</li><li>Launch a new scheme to name and shame, for the first time, employers who fail to pay employment tribunal awards.</li></ul> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 09/05/2019 16:52:39 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1124219

registered interest
date	01/05/2019
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	Business: Environment Protection
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 steps his Department is taking to ensure businesses receive adequate training on risks presented by environmental challenges.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	249877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Environment Agency provides advice on how businesses should comply with environmental law through guidance on Gov.uk. In order to regulate businesses it provides advice on the best available techniques and approaches that enable businesses to comply with the law and helps businesses with the best available compliance techniques. We are also committed to working closely with the private sector to support the effective management of climate-related financial risks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/05/2019 16:51:49 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1124137

registered interest
date	01/05/2019
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	Climate Change Convention
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 steps he is taking to ensure the UK secures its bid to host the 2020 UN Climate Change Conference.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	249919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>We are regularly engaging at Ministerial and official level with interested countries and the Western European and Others Group of the United Nations, as part of a coordinated cross-Government effort to demonstrate the UK is a committed, effective and ambitious leader on climate change and a good potential COP26 host. Our offer to host builds on the strong progress we have made towards the legally binding targets in our world-leading Climate Change Act, and on our broader climate credentials. Between 1990 and 2017, we have reduced our emissions by over 40 per cent while growing the economy by more than two thirds. In order to continue this progress, we have placed clean growth at the heart of our Industrial Strategy and made it one of four Grand Challenges. Thanks to this robust platform of domestic action and our diplomatic network, we continue to be at the forefront of encouraging the world to move towards clean growth.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/05/2019 16:51:59 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1124187

registered interest
date	01/05/2019
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	Energy Company Obligation
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 Energy Company Obligation ECO3 installations have been made in each Parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	249946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The attached table shows the number of measures delivered under the current phase of the Energy Company Obligation (ECO3) for the latest data available (October 2018 – February 2019) for each Parliamentary constituency in Great Britain. In order to manage the risk of revealing personal or commercial data, our approach is not to release non-zero counts of less than five for a small geographic area so these have been shown as 1-4 where applicable.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/05/2019 16:52:26 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry attachment 1 file name ECO3 by constituency final.xlsx title ECO3 measures by Constituency, Oct 2018-Feb 2019
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1124524

registered interest
date	02/05/2019
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	Individual Voluntary Arrangements
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 establish an inquiry into the use of Individual Voluntary Agreements as a means of exploiting low-income and vulnerable consumers.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	250435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>Individual voluntary arrangements, used appropriately, are a very useful tool for helping people to deal with problem debt and there are no current plans to review their use. However, Government has recently consulted on the implementation of a “breathing space” scheme, which aims to give people legal protection from creditor action while they seek debt advice from an independent, approved debt adviser about their options. This will help to ensure that an individual in problem debt can enter a debt solution most appropriate for their circumstances. The Government’s response to this consultation will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 09/05/2019 07:49:28 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1122845

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
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	Post Office: Corporate Hospitality
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 senior officials in his Department have accepted (a) hospitality and (b) gifts from the Post Office in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	246968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>Senior officials have accepted hospitality from the Post Office relating to 2 board dinners, a Post Office people awards day and one overnight stay for a board away day. From the BEIS Gifts, Hospitality, Bribery and Corruption policy, if a gift could be considered to influence a decision, in the past or in the future, the gift should be declined. Transparency data on BEIS hospitality and gifts can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/transparency-and-freedom-of-information-releases?organisations%5B%5D=department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy&amp;parent=department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/search/transparency-and-freedom-of-information-releases?organisations%5B%5D=department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy&amp;parent=department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy</a>.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 09/05/2019 16:52:56 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish