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516160

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Land Registry: Privatisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much has been spent by his Department on the services of consultancy firms relating to proposals to privatise the Land Registry.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	35942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>We will publish details of the expenditure on advisers once a transaction is completed. Given that the privatisation of the Land Registry would be a significant commercial transaction for Government, it is expected that the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee will scrutinise fees incurred as part of any review into the conduct of the transaction. This is the normal process of scrutiny for major Government asset sales.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 04/05/2016 14:40:40 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

438166

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Land Registry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will meet staff representatives in HM Land Registry to discuss concerns they have regarding the announcement in the Spending Review Autumn Statement 2015 which stated that the Government would be consulting on options to move operations of the Land Registry to the private sector from 2017.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	20023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <p>PCS representatives have requested to meet with me. I look forward to the meeting which will be organised in the New Year</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 22/12/2015 22:24:31 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

438167

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Land Registry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will publish the timetable for the proposed change of status of the Land Registry before a public consultation on that matter takes place; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	19851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <p>In the Spending Review Autumn Statement 2015 the Chancellor announced the Government’s intent to consult on options to move operations of the Land Registry into the private sector from 2017.</p><br /><p>We intend to launch the consultation in the New Year setting out Government’s proposals. Final decisions on the options to be included in the consultation have not yet been made.</p><br /><p>No decisions on the options will be taken until after the consultation, but, if Government chose to proceed we would look to then introduce any legislation required.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 22/12/2015 15:03:50 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

438168

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Land Registry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Exchequer received from the HM Land Registry trading fund in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	19852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <p>Land Registry total revenue for 2014/15 was £297.1m. Land Registry paid a dividend of £19.1m to the Exchequer.</p><br /><p>As a Trading Fund, Land Registry is subject to government rules set out in Managing Public Money. This specifies that the charges it makes for its core statutory functions should cover its full costs, 3.5% to reflect the cost of capital used in providing services. As a Trading Fund, Land Registry is required to return the charge for cost of capital to the Consolidated Fund as a dividend. In 2014/15 this ordinary dividend was £19.1million.</p><br /><p>In 2014/15 Land Registry also paid a special dividend of £100million to the Exchequer. This reflected over-recovery from customers in previous years as a result of higher than forecast volume of transactions.</p><br /> <br /> <br /> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 22/12/2015 15:17:44 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

438169

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Land Registry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information he holds on the public satisfaction rating of HM Land Registry.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	19853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>Reports from Quarter 2 2015 show that the customer satisfaction score from the customer satisfaction survey is currently 95%.</p><br /> <br /> <br /><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 05/01/2016 16:49:02 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

438170

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Land Registry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, section 10.5, when he plans to launch the consultation on the future status of the Land Registry; and whether the status quo will be one of the options put forward in that consultation.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	19962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <p>In the Spending Review Autumn Statement 2015 the Chancellor announced the Government’s intent to consult on options to move operations of the Land Registry into the private sector from 2017.</p><br /><p>We intend to launch the consultation in the New Year setting out Government’s proposals. Final decisions on the options to be included in the consultation have not yet been made.</p><br /><p>No decisions on the options will be taken until after the consultation, but, if Government chose to proceed we would look to then introduce any legislation required.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 22/12/2015 15:02:23 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

389433

registered interest
date	13/07/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Electrical Goods: Secondhand Goods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what legislation governs the sale of second-hand electrical goods; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	6738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There are two pieces of legislation relevant to second hand electrical goods; the Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1994, and the General Product Safety Regulations 2005, which implement the EU’s General Product Safety Directive. They require that equipment must only be supplied which is safe.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 20/07/2015 14:44:20 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

389434

registered interest
date	13/07/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Electrical Goods: Secondhand Goods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to prevent consumers purchasing unsafe second-hand electrical goods in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	6739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are two pieces of legislation relevant to second hand electrical goods; the Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1994, and the General Product Safety Regulations 2005, which implement the EU’s General Product Safety Directive. They require that equipment must only be supplied which is safe. The Regulations are enforced by Local Authority Trading Standards Services, who regularly remove unsafe second-hand electrical goods from the market through their market surveillance activities.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 22/07/2015 13:15:07 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

389435

registered interest
date	13/07/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Electronic Equipment: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the efficacy of the Plugs and Sockets Regulations 1994 in regulating online trading of electrical products.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	6740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I have not carried out any specific assessment of the efficacy of the Plugs and Sockets Regulations 1994 in regulating online trading of electrical products. However, feedback from both Trading Standards (who enforce the legislation) and UK industry indicates that the Regulations, applied in conjunction with the Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1994, continue to act as a practical and robust means of keeping both unsafe products, and products which do not have a safe means of connection to standard UK power sockets, off the UK market, regardless of whether these products are sold online.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 21/07/2015 16:27:49 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

389436

registered interest
date	13/07/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Electrical Goods: Counterfeit Manufacturing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to prevent counterfeit electrical goods from being sold in the UK to protect consumers from electrical accidents; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	6741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>In February this year the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pledged an extra £400,000 to help trading standards officers prevent dangerous goods being sold in the UK, and this includes £182,000 for its ports and borders project which is improving surveillance at Southampton and Felixstowe ports.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is also part of the EU rapid alert system for dangerous consumer products; called RAPEX. This facilitates the rapid exchange of information between Member States and the Commission on measures to prevent or restrict the marketing or use of products posing a serious risk to the health and safety of consumers.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 21/07/2015 13:58:42 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris