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	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	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: Living Wage
	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) direct employees, (b) agency staff and (c) outsourced staff working for (i) his Department and (ii) agencies of his Department are paid less than the living wage, as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	135685
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>As at 1 April 2018 there are no direct employees in the core department paid less than the living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.</p><p> </p><p>As at this date there are also no agency staff paid less than the living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.</p><p> </p><p>We do not centrally hold details of the pay levels of staff working for outsourced companies contracted by BEIS.</p><p> </p><p>I have asked Chief Executives of the executive agencies to respond directly to the Hon. Member.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 23/04/2018 16:30:48 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

638465

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2016
	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: Liverpool City Region
	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 people working for his Department or its executive agencies in the Liverpool City Region on a (a) directly employed, (b) agency or (c) outsourced basis are paid less than the living wage as defined by the Living Wages Foundation; and how many such people are employed on zero-hours contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	53675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2016 answer text <p>There are no people working directly for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in the Liverpool City Region.</p><p>Of the BEIS Executive Agencies; the Met Office, Companies House, the Intellectual Property Office and the UK Space Agency have no staff working in the Liverpool City Region.</p><p>The Insolvency Service do have staff working in the Liverpool City Region, but none are paid less than the living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation, and none are on zero hours contracts.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 22/11/2016 14:51:54 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

731279

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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	Foreign Companies
	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 plans he has to introduce legislation on property ownership and public contracting by overseas companies and legal entities.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	38
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is currently analysing responses to a call for evidence on a register showing who owns and controls overseas legal entities that own UK property or participate in UK Government procurement. Next steps will be outlined in the Department’s response to the call for evidence.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 26/06/2017 09:22:33 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

731280

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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	Foreign Companies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish the outcome of the Government's consultation on property ownership and public contracting by overseas companies and legal entities.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	39
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is currently analysing the responses to the call for evidence which closed on 15 May. The call for evidence received 56 responses from a wide range of stakeholders. The outcome will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 26/06/2017 09:21:51 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

731341

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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	Scottish Limited Partnerships: Ownership
	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 bring Scottish Limited Partnerships within the scope of the register of persons of significant control.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	257
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>I refer the right hon. Member to the Scottish Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2017. S.I. 2017 No. 694.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/06/2017 12:57:50 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

751872

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2017
	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	Modern Working Practices Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when the Government plans to respond to each of the recommendations made by the Taylor Review of Modern Employment Practices.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	4861
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>I made an oral statement to the House on 11 July 2017 to announce the publication of the Matthew Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices.</p><p> </p><p>The report is comprehensive and detailed and, as Matthew Taylor himself recognises, is just the start of a long term programme. It will require detailed, careful thought and further consultation. It is important that we take action where we need to. So we will spend the next few months building on the debate that Matthew has created and engage with stakeholders to discuss the report. We need to listen to what those who engaged in this review feel about it.</p><p> </p><p>This Government will give the report the careful consideration it deserves and will respond in full later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 18/07/2017 13:41:51 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

756156

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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	Warm Home Discount Scheme: Families
	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 has made an assessment of the potential merits of including low-income families with young children in the core group of those eligible for the Warm Home Discount.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	7489
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>We recognise that low income families with children represent a significant proportion of households in fuel poverty. That is why the Broader Group of Warm Home Discount recipients is focused on working age households, including those with children. The Digital Economy Act will provide Government with the opportunity to help obligated energy suppliers to better target fuel poor households through data matching, including low income families.</p><p>The Act received Royal Assent on 27 April 2017. The Regulations which will commence those powers are expected to come into force in spring 2018. It is the Department’s intention to consult on the future of the Warm Home Discount in 2018 and that the consultation will cover eligibility.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 13/09/2017 14:15:04 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

756635

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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	Foreign Companies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to (a) publish the outcome of the Government's consultation and (b) introduce legislation on property ownership and public contracting by overseas companies and legal entities.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	8355
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The responses to the call for evidence are currently being analysed and a response will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 07/09/2017 14:09:43 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

768248

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2017
	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, what his Department's estimate is of the amount of EU legislation and regulation that can be incorporated into UK law without amendment.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	106995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill will convert European Union law into UK law as it applies in the UK at the moment of exit. This will ensure that, wherever possible, the same rules and laws will apply the day after exit as they did before.</p><p>The Government is still making a detailed assessment of what corrections will be required to make that law function appropriately on exit day. The Department for Exiting the European Union are working closely with departments across Government to ensure we make the changes required to deliver a functioning statute book on exit in the most efficient manner possible.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 18/10/2017 16:01:15 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

797621

	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	Companies: Ownership
	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 assessment of the potential merits of including trusts in the legislative proposal on the beneficial ownership of companies seeking to purchase property,.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	116584
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The responses to the call for evidence are currently being analysed and a response will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The response to the call for evidence will set out the proposed operation and scope of the register in more detail.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 05/12/2017 11:11:41 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead