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988654

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
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	Consumers: Dispute Resolution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the April 2018 Green Paper on Modernising Consumer Markets, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the mandatory participation in alternative dispute resolution being extended to cover non-regulated markets.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	180258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government is making such an assessment as part of its review of the system of alternative dispute resolution. The Modernising Consumer Markets Green Paper asked for views on whether there should be an automatic right for consumers to access alternative dispute resolution in sectors with the highest levels of consumer harm.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 22/10/2018 14:56:09 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

988655

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
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	Trading Standards: Finance
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 the UK Government will provide additional funding to National Trading Standards and Trading Standards Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	180259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department has provided a single enforcement grant of £12,961,000 to National Trading Standards and of £1,215,000 to Trading Standards Scotland for financial year 2018/19. We keep the funding needs of both organisations under constant review.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 22/10/2018 15:30:04 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

988656

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
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	Consumers: Subscriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the April 2018 Green Paper on Modernising Consumer Markets, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to consumers who fail to cancel subscriptions following initial free trials; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	180260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government has not estimated the annual cost to consumers of unwanted subscriptions.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to tackling the problem of subscription traps and has asked Citizens Advice to lead work on behalf of the Consumer Protection Partnership to recommend any actions needed to prevent consumers paying for unwanted subscriptions.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 22/10/2018 14:56:17 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

988664

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
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	Retail Trade: Urban Areas
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 potential changes to the level of high street retailing in the next five years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	180111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>This Government recognises that High Street retailing is evolving, but high streets remain a crucial part of our local and regional economies, creating jobs, nurturing small businesses and injecting billions of pounds into our economy.</p><p> </p><p>Under current assessments, the majority of employment remains in high street retail. 95% of retail jobs related to traditional retailers in 2017, with 5% of jobs accounted for by online only retailers.</p><p> </p><p>To make assessments of potential changes, we have assembled an industry led expert panel focusing on what consumers and local communities want from their high streets of the future. In conjunction with the expert panel, evidence sessions are also being held across the country. We want to know what the public, and young people in particular, want from their high streets of the future. The responses will be considered by the expert panel and help to inform their recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 22/10/2018 15:31:27 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

988748

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
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	Ford Motor Company: Engines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to faulty engines of the Ford Ecoboost, what steps the Office of Product Safety and Standards plans to take to support both the recall of that vehicle and consumers that have been affected.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	180279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The Office for Product Safety and Standards was established in January 2018 to further improve the UK’s leading product safety system. It covers general consumer product safety, but not vehicles, food, medicines, medical devices, construction products or workplace equipment which are all covered by separate bodies.</p><p> </p><p>The Department of Transport has policy responsibility for vehicle safety and the Driver and Vehicles Standards Agency, an executive agency of the Department for Transport, is responsible for automotive safety defect and recall matters.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 22/10/2018 15:31:13 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

988752

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
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	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, which projects on business and human rights his Department has funded in each of the last five years; and what the total spend of each such project was in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Jo Swinson
uin	180125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The UK’s National Action Plan to implement the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights sets out a rolling programme of actions requiring both legislative and non-legislative approaches. The Department has funded one project in the last five years. The Department matched funding from the Dutch Government toward the development of the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark, a private sector-led initiative that ranks some of the world’s largest companies by their human rights policies, processes, and practices. The total spend on this project from UK Government was £60,000 in 2014/15 and £20,000 in 2015/16.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 22/10/2018 15:30:50 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson

988890

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
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	Clothing: Manufacturing Industries
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 discussions his Department has had with fashion brands and businesses based in Europe on their concerns on accessing the UK after March 2019.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	180080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>This Department engages regularly with UK based businesses across a range of sectors, including fashion brands and businesses, many of whom also have a European base, and we understand the concerns of these businesses about retaining frictionless trade.</p><p> </p><p>This is why Government has been clear that the best outcome is for the UK to leave the EU with a deal and why, following months of intensive work and detailed discussions, we proposed a third option for our future economic relationship, based on the frictionless trade in goods.</p><p> </p><p>At March European Council, the UK and EU agreed that during the implementation period, the UK would be treated as a Member State for the purposes of international agreements, including trade agreements.</p><p> </p><p>This provides certainty and confidence that there will be no disruption to existing relationships underpinned by international agreements as we move into the Implementation Period.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 22/10/2018 15:30:21 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

988898

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
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	Post Offices: Franchises
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 much money from the public purse has been spent on the Post Office franchising programme since 2013.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	180280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>Government has invested over £2 billion in the Post Office since 2010. Funding has been split between subsidy funding to support branches that are not economically viable and investment funding to modernise the post office, including transforming branches and franchising some directly managed branches. The split for the current funding package between April 2018 to March 2021 is £210 million in investment funding and £160 million in subsidy.</p><p> </p><p>While the Government sets the strategic direction for the Post Office, it allows the company the commercial freedom to deliver this strategy as an independent business. Thus, the precise allocation of funding to different programmes is an operational matter for Post Office Limited and is reported in their annual report and accounts which can be found on their website at <a href="http://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 22/10/2018 15:30:35 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss