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1011546

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date	21/11/2018
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	Climate Change Convention
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 with representatives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the UK hosting the conference of parties to that convention in 2020.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	194170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>As I have previously stated, the UK is engaging with partners to determine who is best placed to preside over the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2020 (COP26). This has included discussions with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat to understand the scale of the undertaking. Whoever takes on the COP26 Presidency in 2020, will be working with a wide range of partners to ensure it is a success.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/12/2018 11:22:28 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1010598

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Proprietary Drugs
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 march-in rights provided by the US Bayh-Dole Act 1980, if he will introduce such rights in Medical Research Council (MRC) contracts, to enable the Government to license a patent to a third party for a MRC-funded medicine.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	193426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The ownership of intellectual property (IP) arising from publicly funded research in the UK, including from Medical Research Council (MRC), resides with the research organisation within which the research is undertaken; which could be a university, independent research organisation or research council institute. These research organisations are expected to have exploitation arrangements in place as a condition of the transfer of IP ownership (for example, in Research Council grants), to enable third parties, including businesses and other organisations, to licence or commercialise the results of this research.</p><p>Where research is conducted in an MRC owned unit or institute, the arising IP is owned by the MRC. MRC uses LifeArc as its “technology transfer agent” for the protection, management and exploitation of this IP, including licencing to business and other organisations. Royalties arising from these licensing activities, and from licensing to any spin-outs based on any MRC-owned IP, are owned by the MRC for as long as the patent is effective; the earned income is re-invested by MRC in research.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/11/2018 15:42:10 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1010600

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Radioactive Materials
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 Article 83, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU and the European Atomic Energy Agency, dated 14 November 2018, who will own fissile materials stored at UK nuclear facilities after the UK withdraws from that agency.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	193428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>Under the current European Atomic Energy Community (“Euratom”) Treaty arrangements, special fissile material is collectively owned by the Euratom Community, but the operator with the legal title to the material has an <em>“unlimited right of use and consumption”</em> over it, subject to their complying with the obligations imposed on them by the Treaty. This form of supranational, or sovereign, ownership underpins the regulation of special fissile materials by the Euratom Community in accordance with the Euratom Treaty.</p><p>The UK and EU have agreed that when the UK leaves the EU, Euratom’s supranational ownership arrangements will cease to apply in the UK. Article 83(1) removes Euratom’s ‘sovereign’ ownership and rights in relation to material held in the UK at the end of the implementation period. As Euratom ownership will cease as a result of 83(1), Article 83(2) clarifies that those operators that currently hold title to the material will be the sole owners of it, with all the rights and obligations that apply to it. These provisions will not have any practical impact on the day to day management and use of the material.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 28/11/2018 11:45:35 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1006986

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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	Fracking: Lancashire
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 he will publish any reports provided by Cuadrilla Bowland Ltd to the Oil and Gas Authority on the four seismic events of greater than the red light 0.5ML threshold that occurred at the Preston New Road shale gas site between 26 October 2018 and 4 November 2018.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	191377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) monitors seismicity as part of their regulatory duties at shale gas sites. They review all information submitted to them by Cuadrilla and have assured the Government that events at Preston New Road are conforming to the pre-agreed Hydraulic Fracture Plan.</p><p>Information about the seismic events is displayed real-time on the British Geological Survey (BGS) site and Cuadrilla regularly update information on traffic light events on their web-site.</p><p>Within 30 days of completion of operations the operator must submit a Hydraulic Fracturing Operations Report to the OGA. The OGA will publish these reports six months after receipt.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 03/12/2018 10:38:02 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas