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1146576

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date	26/09/2019
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	Carbon Emissions: British Overseas Territories
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 her Department plans to include carbon emissions from UK Overseas Territories in its carbon accounting processes for the Paris Agreement.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	291441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department is consulting with UK Overseas Territories as to whether they would like to have the UK’s ratification of the Paris Agreement extended to them. For those UK Overseas Territories that so choose, the Department will work with them to ensure they are ready to implement the Paris Agreement and to regularly report to the Department on that implementation.</p><p> </p><p>Under the accounting and transparency rules for the Paris Agreement agreed at COP24 in December 2018, any UK Overseas Territories included in the geographic scope of UK’s ratification of the Paris Agreement in future will also need to be included in the UK’s accounting for and regular reporting on emissions under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.</p><p> </p><p>The UK was the first major economy in the world to legislate for a net zero target. The target is enshrined under the Climate Change Act 2008 which does not apply to UK Overseas Territories.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng grouped question UIN 291443 question first answered 01/10/2019 15:12:15 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1146578

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
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	Carbon Emissions: British Overseas Territories
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 her Department will work with the UK Overseas Territories to reduce their carbon emissions as part of the UK’s (a) contribution towards the Paris Agreement and (b) Net Zero commitment.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	291443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department is consulting with UK Overseas Territories as to whether they would like to have the UK’s ratification of the Paris Agreement extended to them. For those UK Overseas Territories that so choose, the Department will work with them to ensure they are ready to implement the Paris Agreement and to regularly report to the Department on that implementation.</p><p> </p><p>Under the accounting and transparency rules for the Paris Agreement agreed at COP24 in December 2018, any UK Overseas Territories included in the geographic scope of UK’s ratification of the Paris Agreement in future will also need to be included in the UK’s accounting for and regular reporting on emissions under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.</p><p> </p><p>The UK was the first major economy in the world to legislate for a net zero target. The target is enshrined under the Climate Change Act 2008 which does not apply to UK Overseas Territories.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng grouped question UIN 291441 question first answered 01/10/2019 15:12:15 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1131127

registered interest
date	11/06/2019
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	Supermarkets: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment his Department has made of the equity of employment contract terms and conditions in the supermarket sector.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	911256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to upgrading workers’ rights and protecting the most vulnerable workers. Our legal framework already ensures that employers should always treat their employees fairly, and our Good Work Plan will introduce the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation.</p><p> </p><p>In the retail sector specifically, the industry-led Retail Sector Council has identified employment as a priority workstream and this will be discussed at our next meeting on 20 June.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 11/06/2019 14:06:22 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George