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1234743

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date	15/09/2020
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
hansard heading	Employment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the recent report by Culture Shift, Maintaining Workplace culture in a rapidly changing environment, published on 11 September.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL8164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>Remote working is more appropriate for some roles and sectors than others, which is why we have been consistent in making the distinction between those who can and those who cannot work from home as part of our COVID-19 guidance. We also appreciate that the appropriateness of remote working depends on an individual’s personal circumstances and remote working environment.</p><p>The Government has committed to consulting on making flexible working the default and we will use this consultation to consider the lessons learned from COVID-19. The consultation will consider flexible working in all its forms – it is not just about where people work, but also when they work and their associated working patterns.</p><p>On the report’s wider observations around problematic behaviour in the workplace, the government is already seeking to address these issues. Last year we held a consultation to ensure that laws to protect people from sexual harassment at work are operating effectively – and at the start of this year we ran a nationally-representative survey that will further develop our understanding of the problem and its extent.</p><p>We are also supporting the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)’s work to develop a statutory Code of Practice on sexual harassment and harassment in the workplace, which will be based on the technical guidance they published in January.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 25/09/2020 10:59:03 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1234765

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
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
hansard heading	Trade Associations
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have a complete list of all (1) chambers of commerce, and (2) trade associations, registered in the UK; and whether the list of trade associations includes identifying each such association by sector.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL8169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>We do not hold a list of all the Chambers of Commerce, however the majority of Chambers are affiliated to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). A list of those Chambers can be found on the BCC’s website.</p><p>A list of all UK trade associations is not available from official sources. There is no compulsory requirement to register a trade association anywhere, unless it is a company limited by guarantee in which case the organisation must register with Companies House in order to comply with statutory company law<em>.</em></p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 25/09/2020 12:46:32 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1234766

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
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
hansard heading	Trade Associations: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what support and advice they have provided (1) to chambers of commerce, and (2) trade associations, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL8170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>Since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State has held frequent calls with major business representative organisations. Other engagement includes the Secretary of State’s recent industry roundtables on Economic Recovery. The BEIS ministerial team continues to use these opportunities to assure the effectiveness of Government’s responses to the COVID-19 outbreak and to ensure a safe return to work across the whole UK economy as quickly as possible.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 25/09/2020 11:05:39 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1233878

registered interest
date	14/09/2020
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
hansard heading	Accountancy: Standards
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 Callanan on 8 September (HL7080), whether they informed either House that an agreement would be needed with, and there would be an uncapped unspecified fee payable to, a company registered in Delaware for making instruments of UK law available to the public when the European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 were before Parliament; if not, why not; and whether Ministers were aware of this fact; and if so, when they became aware.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
uin	HL8051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government’s proposed agreement with the IFRS Foundation is a minor administrative matter. This is required to enable the UK’s adoption and endorsement of international accounting standards following the end of the Transition Period. All jurisdictions which use international accounting standards, including the EU, require such agreements with the IFRS Foundation.</p><p> </p><p>The proposed fee applicable is in line with HM Treasury guidance.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 24/09/2020 12:10:07 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4562 label Biography information for Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted

1233879

registered interest
date	14/09/2020
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
hansard heading	Accountancy: Standards
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 Callanan on 8 September (HL7080), whether this example of Parliament not maintaining copyright over the publication of UK-adopted international accounting standards has a precedent; and if not, what other examples there are where they have granted the copyright of the publication of laws passed by the UK Parliament to (1) companies registered in Delaware, or (2) any other third party organisations.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
uin	HL8052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>We are required, by the International Accounting Standards and European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, to publish a consolidated text of UK-adopted international accounting standards. Each jurisdiction which requires the use of international accounting standards has a licence agreement with the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation, who develop the standards and own the copyright for them.</p><p> </p><p>An agreement between the Government and the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation has not been finalised and, therefore, further detail may not be disclosed at this time. However, the agreement is a licence to allow the use of material and definitions, protected under copyright.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 24/09/2020 12:14:02 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4562 label Biography information for Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted

1233880

registered interest
date	14/09/2020
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
hansard heading	Accountancy: Standards
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 Callanan on 6 August (HL7506), and in the light of the fact that the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has indicated that a 'true and fair' override exists in both UK law and the standards of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), why the FRC's Accounting and Reporting Policy Team’s remit to follow and comment on the work of the IASB as it develops International Financial Reporting Standards prevents the FRC from issuing guidance on the application of a 'true and fair' view; and why this issue has not been resolved following the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee's report Future of Audit, published in April 2019.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
uin	HL8053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) issued a paper on ‘true and fair’ accounting in June 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Sir Donald Brydon made recommendations on ‘true and fair’ in his report on the Quality and Effectiveness of Audit. The Government is currently considering the full package of reforms needed following the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee's report Future of Audit, Sir Donald Brydon’s report, Sir John Kingman’s Independent review of Financial Reporting Council and the Competition and Markets Authority’s Market study of the audit market. The Government will publish our proposals for reform in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 24/09/2020 12:19:13 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4562 label Biography information for Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted

1233556

registered interest
date	10/09/2020
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
hansard heading	Construction: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to reports of issues relating to construction and security at Liverpool Hope Hospital, Manchester Uptown, and the University of Sheffield, what plans they have to improve (1) the oversight, (2) the management, and (3) the quality of the outcome, of construction projects in the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL8012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving the productivity and performance of the construction sector. For this reason, we published the Construction Sector Deal in 2018, which aims to transform the productivity of the sector.</p><p> </p><p>One key element of the Sector Deal is £420 million of combined investment from industry and the Government in digital and offsite manufacturing technologies. Digital techniques deployed at all phases of design will deliver improved safety during the construction and operation of buildings, producing better, surer results. Offsite manufacturing technologies will help to minimise the wastage, inefficiencies, and delays that affect onsite construction.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 24/09/2020 11:22:03 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1233577

registered interest
date	10/09/2020
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
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assurances they have received from companies about how many vaccinations for COVID-19 it will be possible to manufacture and produce in the UK by December.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL8033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>Owing to commercial sensitivities the Government is not able to reveal such information concerning vaccine developers at this time. The Vaccines Taskforce has taken action to scale up UK vaccine manufacturing capabilities, so that if and when a vaccine is found it can be produced at pace. This includes funding to accelerate and expand the new Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre, bring online a Rapid Deployment Facility, and a new state-of-the-art centre to scale up COVID-19 vaccine and gene therapy manufacturing. Government has also partnered with Wockhardt to provide fill and finish services.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 23/09/2020 13:54:51 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1233583

registered interest
date	10/09/2020
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
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the statement by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on 8 September (HC Deb, cols 517-519), what is the nature of the vaccines which form the basis of the agreements in place with six separate vaccine developers; and who are the developers.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL8039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>The UK has secured access to 6 different candidates, across 4 different vaccine types, reflecting the government’s strategy to ensure the UK has a supply of vaccines should any of these prove safe and effective:</p><ul><li>Adenoviral vaccines (University of Oxford/AstraZeneca, Janssen);</li><li>mRNA vaccines (BioNTech/Pfizer);</li><li>Inactivated whole virus vaccines (Valneva);</li><li>Protein adjuvant vaccines (GlaxoSmithKline/Sanofi, Novavax).</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 23/09/2020 13:55:09 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott

1233584

registered interest
date	10/09/2020
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
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many doses for a COVID-19 vaccine they have purchased from companies based in (1) the United States, (2) China, and (3) Russia; if none, whether they plan to purchase such vaccines from those countries; and if so, when.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL8040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>The UK Government has agreements in the US with BioNTech/Pfizer for 30 million doses, Novavax for 60 million doses and Janssen for 30 million doses of their not-for-profit vaccine. We are taking a portfolio-based approach that monitors the landscape of coronavirus vaccine development, both here in the UK and internationally. Although we continue to investigate further potential vaccine candidates worldwide, we are currently not able to give any further information on these candidates owing to commercial sensitivity. We will, however, announce agreements with any other vaccine developers in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 23/09/2020 13:55:37 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott