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934791

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
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	Motor Vehicles: Standards
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 pan-European DRIVES project, what steps he is taking with his EU counterparts to ensure that UK automotive engineering standards remain aligned with those in other parts of Europe after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	160714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>The UK automotive industry is one of our great success stories and global demand for UK designed, engineered and manufactured vehicles is strong. My rt. hon. Friend the Prime Minister has confirmed we are seeking a UK-EU free trade area underpinned by a common rule book for industrial goods and a new business-friendly customs model that avoids friction at the border.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Automotive Industrial Partnership (AIP), working with Government, UK industry is leading the development of qualifications and programmes to upskill existing and future workforce, as well as supporting progression and talent retention. The AIP will take responsibility for, and to transform, the end-to-end skills system, enabling automotive employers to attract and develop the current and future skilled workforce that the sector needs to compete globally.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/07/2018 15:21:18 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

781350

registered interest
date	31/10/2017
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	Cash Dispensing: Fees and Charges
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 in the last 12 months with the ATM Industry Association in Europe on interchange fees.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	110579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department has had no such discussions.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 07/11/2017 16:23:35 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

722159

registered interest
date	18/04/2017
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: Freedom of Information
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 staff in his Department respond to Freedom of Information requests.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	71034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy does not have a specific number of staff tasked with responding to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests. On receipt FOI requests are allocated to officials in the area of the Department relevant to the subject of the request who provide the response.</p><p>The Department’s Information Rights Unit (IRU) processes all FOI requests and provides advice and assistance to policy officials on the application of information rights legislation. The IRU consists of eight members of staff.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 24/04/2017 15:35:50 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

713046

registered interest
date	21/03/2017
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on how many occasions his Department took longer than 30 working days to respond to a freedom of information request in each month since July 2016.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	68661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my Answer of 24 March to Question 68034:</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-03-15/68034/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-03-15/68034/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 27/03/2017 10:14:11 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

711544

registered interest
date	15/03/2017
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Freedom of Information
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 average response rate was of his Department to individual Freedom of Information requests in each month since July 2016.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	68034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>Freedom of Information statistics are Official Statistics and are governed by the standards set out by the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) in their Code of Practice. To publish information outside of the release timetable would be a breach of Protocol 2 of the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p>The latest Freedom of Information statistics were published in December 2016 and are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/freedom-of-information-statistics-july-to-september-2016--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/freedom-of-information-statistics-july-to-september-2016--2</a></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 23/03/2017 16:04:08 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

631713

registered interest
date	08/11/2016
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	Public Sector: Redundancy Pay
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 public sector workers in further and higher education government posts received a redundancy package with a value of over £100,000 in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	52432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>This information is not fully available due to HR system and service supplier changes since 2010.</p><p>There were three Department for Business, Innovation and Skills civil servants in higher and further education posts that received redundancy packages with a value in excess of £100,000 in 2011/12. There have been no other redundancy packages of this value since 2014 in these business areas.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 14/11/2016 16:14:46 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

621965

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Location
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of senior civil service graded posts in his Department classified as (i) deputy director, (ii) assistant director, (iii) team leader and (iv) policy manager have been based outside London in each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	50393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was created in July 2016; therefore no data for the department exists prior to that date.</p><p>The number and proportion of our Senior Civil Service graded posts in the department classified as (i) deputy director, (ii) assistant director, (iii) team leader or (iv) policy manager, as at 30 September 2016, are shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Total number of Deputy Directors</p></td><td><p>191</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total number of Deputy Directors based outside London</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Percentage of Deputy Directors based outside London</p></td><td><p>6.8%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 31/10/2016 14:10:47 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

582633

registered interest
date	13/09/2016
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	Older People: Weather
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 contingency plans the Government has in place for winter 2016-17 to support pensioners and other vulnerable people in the event of a prolonged spell of below average temperatures.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	46271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government has various policies in place that will support pensioners and other vulnerable people with their energy bills throughout winter 2016/17,irrespective of temperature.</p><p> </p><p>The Warm Home Discount scheme provides eligible households with a £140 energy bill rebate. This winter, over 2 million low income and vulnerable households, of which over 1.2 million are pensioner households, will be helped under the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Over 12 million pensioners receive the Winter Fuel Payment of up to £300 each winter while people on certain benefits, including Pension Credit, receive a £25 Cold Weather Payment for each seven day period of freezing temperatures.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also reforming the Energy Company Obligation to have a greater focus on vulnerable and low income households. It will have a value of £640m a year, will run from 2017 until 2022, and and homes helped under the new obligation could see their energy bills fall by up to £300 per year.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we are providing £1.3m to fund the Big Energy Saving Network and running the Big Energy Saving Week again. This is a grant scheme that supports vulnerable consumers to take action to reduce their energy costs by switching supplier and taking up energy efficiency, through outreach by trusted and trained community and third sector organisations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 28/09/2016 13:03:41 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

582634

registered interest
date	13/09/2016
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	Fuel Poverty: Children
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 children in England were classed as living in fuel poverty in each year since May 2011.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	46272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Fuel poverty is measured at the household level. We do not publish the number of children in fuel poverty as we cannot accurately estimate personal level information.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 27/09/2016 10:23:57 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

582129

registered interest
date	12/09/2016
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	Private Rented Housing: Energy
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 progress his Department has made on ensuring that energy efficiency in the private rented sector is improved to meet new regulations regarding E-grade standards for properties to be let.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	46040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2016 answer text <p><em>The Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property)(England and Wales) Regulations 2015</em> requires that all landlords of domestic and non-domestic privately rented property in England and Wales ensure that, from 1 April 2018, their properties reach an energy performance rating of at least an E before granting a tenancy to new or existing tenants, unless a prescribed exemption applies.</p><p>The Department has undertaken, and will continue to undertake, engagement activity with landlord groups to help them understand the requirements of the regulations. Officials are currently preparing guidance to assist non-domestic landlords in complying with their obligations under the regulations, and we will prepare similar guidance for domestic landlords in due course.</p><p>The Department is also developing a landlord exemptions register, a requirement of the Regulations, which will be used by enforcement authorities to help target their enforcement activities, and which will allow landlords to register online any exemptions that apply.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/09/2016 14:15:08 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne