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1121395

	registered interest
	date	11/04/2019
	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
	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 recent steps he has taken to help businesses create more highly skilled jobs in (a) Gillingham and Rainham, (b) Medway and (c) Kent.
	tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
	tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
	uin	244055
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government has invited all Mayoral Combined Authorities and Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) in England to develop Local Industrial Strategies. We aim to agree these with all places by early 2020. For Kent, the South East LEP will set out an ambitious long-term vision for the area to increase its productivity, build on its established strengths, and create new opportunities for people and businesses in emerging sectors and industries.</p><p> </p><p>The government know that regions across the UK have different skills needs, so will build on local strengths to deliver opportunities for people wherever they live. One way we will achieve this is through Skills Advisory Panels which bring together local employers and skills providers to pool knowledge on skills and labour market needs and work together to understand and address key local challenges. These Panels will be led by the Local Enterprise Partnership, and will influence Local Industrial Strategy development.</p><p> </p><p>In Kent, and the wider South East LEP area, the government is working in partnership with local business and civic leaders to grow skills and opportunities for workers across the area by:</p><p>- Delivering an increase of 198,900 jobs since 2010 and 31,080 apprenticeship starts last year.</p><p>- Investing £590 million of Growth Deal funding to the South East LEP since 2014. delivering 78,000 jobs, 29,000 homes and attracting a further £960 million extra investment into the South East, including £22 million spent on 29 skills projects.</p><p>- Investing £6.5 million for the Kent and Medway EDGE Hub. .</p><p>- Backing the Innovation Park Medway, within the Kent Enterprise Zone with £4.4 million funding to help attract high quality technology, engineering and manufacturing companies to the area.</p><p>Supporting the Local Enterprise Partnership’s Kent and Medway Growth Hub to help small and medium sized enterprises in the areas access the support they need to grow and thrive.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 23/04/2019 16:29:21 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

1171817

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2020
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Duncan of Springbank on 28 October 2019 (HL48), whether the decision to classify the default rate of loans made by the British Business Bank via peer-to-peer platforms as commercially sensitive information was to protect (1) the British Business Bank, or (2) the identify of borrowers; and if it was to protect the identity of borrowers, whether they will publish the aggregate value of (a) defaulted, and (b) provisional, loans through peer-to-peer platforms for each of the last three financial years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Myners
	uin	HL579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>Data provided to the British Business Bank (BBB) by its delivery partners to meet portfolio monitoring and reporting requirements remains commercially sensitive to the delivery partners and as such is governed by confidentiality agreements. An individual delivery partner may choose to publish data on the overall performance of their loan book, which may include but will not be limited to BBB backed investments. A list of BBB’s delivery partners can be found on their website.</p><p> </p><p>The BBB’s Annual Report and Accounts (“Enabling Small Businesses to Grow and Prosper”) includes information on the BBB’s overall performance and is available on the website</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 28/01/2020 15:47:32 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
	tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

1172760

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2020
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the (1) effectiveness, and (2) accuracy, of Energy Performance Certificates as applied to domestic dwellings.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
	uin	HL691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government launched a Call for Evidence on Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) in 2018, which covered questions of both EPC effectiveness and accuracy. We are conducting analysis of the responses and will publish a government response in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 28/01/2020 15:46:59 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
	tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1236492

	registered interest
	date	17/09/2020
	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
	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 take steps to encourage young people to study courses relating to mining and the procurement of energy at higher education.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
	uin	91744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government, through UK Research and Innovation, fund informal learning programmes to inspire young people to take up STEM subjects and careers and provide a future generation passionate about STEM, including geological science. For example, we support the STEM Ambassador programme, a nationwide network of over 30,000 volunteers from a wide range of employers, who engage with young people to provide stimulating and inspirational activities to increase their interest in STEM subjects and to raise awareness of the range of careers that STEM qualifications offer.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 23/09/2020 13:53:34 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
	tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1236493

	registered interest
	date	17/09/2020
	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
	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 it his policy to create a new ministerial responsibility within his Department to support the mining sector.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
	uin	91745
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises and values the importance of mining as a foundation industry serving a number of other vital industrial activities, and therefore this sector is covered by the responsibilities of my Hon. Friend the Minister for Business and Industry.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 24/09/2020 11:26:08 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1236495

	registered interest
	date	17/09/2020
	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
	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 progress is being made on the development of a covid-19 vaccine.
	tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
	tabling member printed	Dr Kieran Mullan
	uin	91740
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government is leading efforts to find and manufacture a vaccine, working with industry and experts, both here in the UK and internationally to ensure we are in the best position possible to support the discovery, manufacture and mass-deployment of a successful vaccine should a candidate prove successful. A number of agreements to procure millions of doses of vaccines have been made, ensuring the greatest possible chance of securing access to a safe and effective vaccine. The UK has now secured access to 6 different candidates, across 4 different vaccines types, including University of Oxford’s vaccine being developed with AstraZeneca and agreements with BioNTech/Pfizer alliance, Valneva, Novavax, Janssen and GSK/Sanofi Pasteur.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 22/09/2020 15:14:07 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
	tabling member	4860 label Biography information for Dr Kieran Mullan

1278077

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2021
	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
	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 15 January 2021 to Question 132902, whether it is his Department's policy that pricing strategies are a matter for businesses that are in a dominant position.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	140076
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2021 answer text <p>The Competition Act 1998 prohibits abuse of a dominant position – abusive behaviour can relate to pricing strategies, for example excessive pricing or setting artificially low prices to stifle competition.</p><p> </p><p>The Competition and Markets Authority is responsible for investigating individual and market-wide competition issues in the UK. The Government has ensured that the CMA has significant powers to investigate and act if it finds that companies are behaving anti-competitively in a market.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 27/01/2021 17:14:42 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1221387

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	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	Airbus: Government Assistance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on what day he held discussions with representative from AirBus on safeguarding jobs in that company; and what support the Government has provided to that company during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	70320
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>The Government regular meets with Airbus to discuss a wide range of business issues. Details of meetings held by Ministers in the Department are recorded in our transparency data, which is published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/beis-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/beis-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Airbus is benefiting from the Government’s £300 billion Covid-19 business support package, which includes the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Aerospace companies, such as Airbus, are also benefiting from over £6.25 billion of through the Bank of England’s Covid Corporate Financing Facility, as well as our grants for research and development, and through UK Export Finance over the next 18 months.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/07/2020 14:12:58 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1199215

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2020
	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	Boilers: Carbon Emissions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many domestic boilers they anticipate will be sold every year for the next 10 years; and what they estimate the carbon emissions for those boilers will be.
	tabling member printed	Lord Foster of Bath
	uin	HL4962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2020 answer text <p>There are close to 2 million heating appliances sold in the UK each year, over 80% of which are domestic gas boilers. Gas boiler sales are likely to remain at a similar level in the immediate future. However, industry projections for heating appliance sales in 2020 are being revised due to the impact of covid-19.</p><p> </p><p>Emissions from individual homes depend on the size and energy efficiency of the property. As a result of minimum energy efficiency requirements for new gas boilers, introduced in 2018, the average household that switches from an average gas boiler can save 200kgCo2 per year.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to reducing the emissions produced from heating our homes by increasing energy efficiency and utilising clean heating technologies to meet our net zero commitments. The immediate steps to tackle these emissions will be set out as part of the Heat and Buildings Strategy, which we aim to publish later in the year.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 16/06/2020 13:57:18 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	214 label Biography information for Lord Foster of Bath

1550474

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2022
	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	3D Printing: 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, whether legislation regulates the (a) manufacture, (b) sale and (c) possession of 3D printing technology.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
	uin	108356
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>In placing a 3D printer on the market the manufacturer will need to comply with the relevant product safety legislation such as the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008 and other relevant regulations that may apply to the 3D printer product. There are currently no additional requirements in product safety legislation specifically concerning the possession of 3D manufacturing technology by consumers.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 20/12/2022 15:37:21 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart