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927979

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
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	Plastics: Marine Environment
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 Marine Plastics Research and Innovation Framework will have funding allocated from Official Development Aid.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	155717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The UK £25m contribution to the Commonwealth Marine Plastics Research and Innovation Framework will come from a number of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and non-ODA sources, including planned government-funded research and innovation activities and new activities from unallocated budgets.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 25/06/2018 14:00:39 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

819904

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
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	Groceries Code Adjudicator
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2017 to Question 117048 on Groceries Code Adjudicator, for what reasons the Department has not published its response to its consultation on extending the remit of the Groceries Code Adjudicator, which closed in January 2017, and when his Department plans to publish its response.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	121976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy continues to work closely with the Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs on the Call for Evidence on extending the remit of the Groceries Code Adjudicator. We have carefully analysed all responses received and considered potential solutions to issues identified by respondents. We will be publishing a full Government response to the Call for Evidence shortly.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 15/01/2018 16:34:22 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

805996

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
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	Environment Protection
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 steps he is taking to ensure that the devolved administrations' policies and incentives for green finance are all coherent with each other and with those of the Westminster Government, after the UK has left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	119206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>In the formulation of the Clean Growth Strategy (CGS), the devolved administrations were consulted on many of the policies contained within the Strategy. We will continue to work with the devolved administrations as we develop and implement the policies and proposals in the CGS, including green finance.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 18/12/2017 17:27:03 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

805998

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
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	Chemicals
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 Government will introduce requirements for manufacturers of antifreeze to (a) include a bittering agent in the product and (b) ensure that the product is non-toxic to animals.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	119208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>Antifreeze supplied for domestic use is regulated under the General Product Safety Regulations 2005. This requires it to be safe in normal or reasonably foreseeable use when placed on the market. In addition, chemical products including antifreeze are also regulated by European Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures. This aims to protect people and the environment from the effects of hazardous chemicals by requiring suppliers to provide information about the hazards present and to package them safely.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to regulate to require manufacturers to include a bittering agent, but producers are already able to add a bittering agent on a voluntary basis.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 18/12/2017 17:26:18 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

751880

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
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 assessment he has made of the effect of the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights on (a) business practices and (b) international efforts to uphold human rights.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	4967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK was the first state to publish a National Action Plan to implement the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This Plan brings together a range of measures – national and international, mandatory and voluntary – to foster business respect for human rights. These include the world leading provision in the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which requires large companies to say what they do to ensure modern slavery is not taking place in their business or through their supply chains, support for the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark, a business-led initiative to rank the world’s largest businesses on their approach to human rights and continuing encouragement to other countries to produce their own National Action Plans.</p><p>The Joint Committee on Human Rights’ recent inquiry on human rights and business which culminated in its report “Human Rights and Business 2017: Promoting responsibility and ensuring accountability” examined human rights and business in the UK including the implementation of the UK’s National Action Plan. The Government will respond to the report when the Committee reconvenes after summer recess.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 18/07/2017 15:18:51 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

751881

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
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 discussions he has had with (a) his Cabinet colleagues, (b) business leaders and (c) civil society organisations on the Government's National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	4968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is committed to the Government’s approach on business and human rights and the Department jointly leads with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the UK’s National Action Plan. Together we drive cross-Government delivery of its commitments through an official-level steering group.</p><p>Ministers and officials from this Department and across Government have discussions in many contexts with business and civil society organisations, which touch on aspects of the very broad business and human rights agenda, for example, on such matters as labour practices, equality and diversity, health and safety, modern slavery, and more besides.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 18/07/2017 15:19:43 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

661651

registered interest
date	19/12/2016
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	Universities: Private Sector
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 steps he is taking to help facilitate collaboration between universities and the private sector.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	58322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government has taken action across a range of areas – skills, research, infrastructure and facilities, knowledge exchange, access to finance, intellectual property and tax incentives - to ensure the strong development of university-business collaboration and the application of research to support sustainable economic growth.</p><p>At the Autumn Statement, the Government committed an extra £2 billion a year in research and development by 2020- 21, including for the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. The Chancellor confirmed a further £100m support for collaboration between universities across the range of knowledge exchange activity and a further £100m for Innovate UK for the Biomedical Catalyst.</p><p>The creation of UK Research &amp; Innovation - bringing together the Research Councils, Innovate UK and the research and knowledge exchange functions of the Higher Education Funding Council for England is an opportunity to take a strategic approach and to simplify funding arrangements for research, innovation and commercialisation.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 09/01/2017 11:15:06 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

573982

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
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	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 Department will have lead responsibility for the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	44593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>The implementation of the UK’s national action plan on business and human rights is jointly led by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 07/09/2016 13:21:42 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy