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90411

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
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	National Nuclear Laboratory
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 support the National Nuclear Laboratory's commercial opportunities abroad.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	208039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><strong>Final Approved answer to 20054</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>UK Trade &amp; Investment (UKTI) has a close relationship with NNL who are integral partners in the development and implementation of a UK Civil Nuclear Export strategy, being taken forward under the Nuclear Industrial Strategy, to target the most promising overseas opportunities for the UK nuclear industry. NNL also regularly support and participate in UKTI’s related programme of civil nuclear focussed inward and outward trade missions. This partnership has contributed to NNL success abroad.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Longer-term commercial opportunities can stem from international collaboration on R&amp;D. For example, NNL is involved in the Nugenia project which includes R&amp;D on new and innovative designs in nuclear fission. They are also leading UK participation in the Jules Horowitz Reactor project in France on behalf of the Government, and have engaged with USA government on a number of issues, such as advanced recycle R&amp;D and radioisotope thermoelectric generations for space batteries.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/09/2014 15:52:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

89431

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Jackson Square Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when conducting due diligence on Jackson Square Aviation and JSA International Holdings LP, whether UK Export Finance was aware that their base at Walker House is also the base of Iranian banks on the UK's blacklists.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	207296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>When asked to support an export transaction, UK Export Finance conducts due diligence on the companies involved in that transaction. It does not research other unrelated companies, for example using the same registered address of convenience, which have no connection with the transaction in question.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/09/2014 13:57:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

89433

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Prosthetics: Competition
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 competitiveness of the prosthesis manufacturing industry.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	207338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>The Government has not made a specific assessment of the competitiveness of the prosthesis manufacturing industry. However, prosthetics form a key part of the wider medical technology sector, and work is underway with the main medical technology trade associations (including the British Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA)), under the aegis of the Ministerial Medical Technology Strategy Group to identify and address the competitiveness challenges across the sector and its supply-chains.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/09/2014 16:20:12 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

89435

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Nuclear Power: Tradeshow Access Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what financial support is available from UK Trade & Investment to British companies under the Tradeshow Access Programme to attend the World Nuclear Exhibition in Paris from 14-16 October 2014; and what criteria are applied in deciding what support to provide.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	207374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>Through the Tradeshow Access Programme (TAP) 7 grants of £1,500 each are being made available for eligible UK businesses at the World Nuclear Exhibition.</p><p>A company can be eligible if they:</p><p>- are classed as small or medium-sized or a UK university or UK publicly funded centre of higher or further learning or UK publicly funded research organisation;</p><p>- have been exporting for less than 10 years or did not exhibit at the previous edition of the event in question; and</p><p>- do not breach a limit of 12 TAP grants since 1 April 2009 including no more than 6 in non-emerging and high growth markets.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/09/2014 16:38:27 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

89436

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Exports: Advisory Services
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 ensure that the Overseas Business Risk service is better shared with and promoted to businesses looking to export.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Andrew Bingham
uin	207306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>The Overseas Business Risk (OBR) service is promoted as part of UK Trade and Investment’s (UKTI) overall offer to UK businesses looking to develop their exports. This is done through UKTI’s network which includes International Trade Advisers, Sectoral and Overseas teams. Promotion material, such as UKTI’s First Class Export Pack, also aims to ensure UK business is aware of the service alongside outreach events and the use of social media. The OBR country pages on the GOV.UK domain are refreshed on a regular basis to provide up-to-date intelligence to UK business. A Joint Advisory Group, with very senior business representation, contributes to the development and promotion of this service.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/09/2014 16:41:12 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3994 label Biography information for Andrew Bingham

89441

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Trade in Services Agreement
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 his Department has made of the potential effect of UK participation in a Trade in Services Agreement treaty on the Government's ability to regulate the financial services sector.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	207180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>The UK Government is a strong supporter of the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), which provides an opportunity to address barriers to trade in services through seeking to deepen services trade rules and regulatory disciplines and to address market access objectives. Given the crucial role of financial stability to overall economic stability, governments and regulators need to have the ability to closely monitor and regulate banks, insurance companies and other financial services providers. The TiSA text will contain a prudential carve-out which will fully protect the ability of UK and international financial regulators to regulate and take any prudential actions for the sake of financial stability or to protect investors, depositors, policy holders or persons to whom a fiduciary duty is owed by a financial service supplier.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/09/2014 16:35:53 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

89444

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Trade in Services Agreement
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 his Department holds on whether the proposed Trade in Services Agreement treaty is likely to contain provisions that would deny governments the right to require that data is held onshore.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	207178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>As with other trade agreements currently in place, such as the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services, we expect agreements under negotiation, such as the Trade in Services Agreement, to contain provisions regarding data transfer and provisions regarding data protection. As with other agreements, we will want to see these provisions provide robust safeguards for the protection of EU citizens’ data while at the same time allowing for legitimate data transfers to third countries.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/09/2014 16:30:06 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

89445

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Trade in Services Agreement
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 his Department holds on whether the proposed Trade in Services Agreement treaty is likely to contain provisions to prevent the regulation of new insurance products.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	207179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>The UK Government is a strong supporter of the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), which provides an opportunity to address barriers to trade in services through seeking to deepen services trade rules and regulatory disciplines and to address market access objectives. There is no intention to prevent the regulation of new insurance products, nor would the UK endorse such a move. Furthermore, the prudential carve-out element of the TiSA agreement will fully protect the ability of UK and international financial regulators to regulate and take any prudential actions for the sake of financial stability or to protect investors, depositors, policy holders or persons to whom a fiduciary duty is owed by a financial service supplier.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/09/2014 16:33:04 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

89448

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Trade in Services Agreement
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 his Department holds on whether the proposed Trade in Services Agreement treaty is likely to contain provisions to allow or promote the increased privatisation of public services.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	207176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>The European Commission has made it clear that safeguards are in place in all EU wide trade agreements to ensure that Member State governments remain free to manage public services as they wish.</p><p><a href="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1115" target="_blank">http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1115</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/09/2014 16:47:58 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

89450

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Sugar: EU External Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had on (a) improving access to the EU sugar market for cane sugar suppliers and (b) removal of the CXL sugar import duty.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	207077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>My Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills has had no recent discussions directly concerning the removal of the CXL sugar import duty, or on improving access to the EU sugar market for cane sugar suppliers. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is involved in ongoing trade negotiations between the EU and various trading partners which aim to increase trade of goods, and this includes sugar cane imports.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/09/2014 16:45:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick