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810473

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
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	Business: Human Rights
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 the timetable is for his Department to respond to the Sixth Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Human Rights and Business 2017: Promoting responsibility and ensuring accountability, HC443 of Session 2016–17.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	120819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office jointly led preparation of the Government’s response, which was passed to the Committee on 13 December. I understand the Committee is to consider and then publish the Government’s response.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/01/2018 16:26:38 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

756892

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	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, which EU legislation within his Department's responsibilities will (a) be incorporated into UK law through the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill and (b) require to be amended under powers in that Bill.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	7903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 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’s current estimate is that we will need to make between 800 and 1,000 statutory instruments to make exit a reality in UK law.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 12/09/2017 16:35:50 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

710667

registered interest
date	13/03/2017
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	Insolvency: Prosecutions
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 prosecutions have been carried out of company directors continuing to trade when insolvent in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	67505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>While “continuing to trade whilst insolvent” is not a criminal offence in itself, under s993 Companies Act 2006 (and previously under s458 Companies Act 1985)</p><p>“If any business of a company is carried on with intent to defraud creditors of the company or creditors of any other person, or for any fraudulent purpose, every person who is knowingly a party to the carrying on of the business in that manner commits an offence.”</p><p>The table below provides the number of persons prosecuted for an offence of fraudulent trading in respect of an individual company for the last five financial years, irrespective of verdict.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 12 – March 13</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 13 – March 14</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 14 - March 15</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 15 – March 16</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 16 to March 17</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TOTAL</p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The offence may be committed by a person other than a director and separate records of the number of directors prosecuted are not centrally collated.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 21/03/2017 15:27:49 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

670357

registered interest
date	09/01/2017
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	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 assessment his Department has made of the effect on UK jobs of the UK leaving the Single Market in the five years (a) before and (b) after that action is taken.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	59011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>Departments are currently doing some analysis with the Department for Exiting the European Union to understand the impacts that withdrawal from the EU will have on businesses, consumers and other economic actors. Due to the decisions this Government has taken, the British economy is fundamentally strong and we are well-positioned to negotiate our departure from the EU. Employment is at a record high. There are over two million more people in employment compared with 2010 and around 900,000 fewer unemployed.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 16/01/2017 11:49:54 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

604978

registered interest
date	18/10/2016
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	Pharmacy: Competition
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 had discussions with the Competition and Markets Authority on the implications for competition of the vertical integration of pharmacies and pharmaceutical wholesalers; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	49184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>I have had no discussions with the Competition and Markets Authority on the implications for competition of the vertical integration of pharmacies and pharmaceutical wholesalers.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 24/10/2016 13:32:25 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

604979

registered interest
date	18/10/2016
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	Pharmacy: Closures
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 assessment his Department has made on small businesses of the potential closure of independent pharmacies; and what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on that effect.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	49185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2016 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy regularly discusses a range of issues with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health.</p><p>Funding for the contractors providing NHS pharmaceutical services is determined by the Department of Health.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 26/10/2016 14:02:26 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake