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date	23/02/2018
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	Commercial Secrets: EU Law
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 as part of the transposition of the Trade Secrets Directive into UK law, the Government plans to transpose Article 5 of that legislation which is excluded from the consultation.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	129458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government is seeking views on draft regulations to transpose the Trade Secrets Directive into UK law and launched a technical consultation on 19 February 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is of the view that it is not necessary to transpose the provisions of Article 5 of the Directive as UK law already provides for such measures. However, the Government will consider any views to the contrary submitted to the consultation.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/02/2018 16:27:14 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

847786

registered interest
date	23/02/2018
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	Commercial Secrets: EU Law
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 the Government will take steps to ensure that the damages applicable to employees and former employees under the laws resulting from the transposition of the Trade Secrets Directive into UK law are set as low as possible, so as to ensure that the threat of high fines does not act as a disincentive to legitimate whistleblowing.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	129462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government is of the view that the law already protects whistle-blowers from employers seeking injunctions or damages against them for the disclosure of a trade secret. The transposition of the Trade Secrets Directive will not change the position. In view of this, there is no need for action to be taken with regard to the level of damages for legitimate whistleblowing.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/02/2018 16:31:43 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett