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453534

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	EU Grants and Loans: Cornwall
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much funding has been allocated to Cornwall from each of the EU programmes in the last ten years.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL6236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>2007-13 (last funding round)</p><p> </p><p>For the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for 2007-13, information can be found on GOV.UK under ‘2007 to 2013 ERDF programmes and resources’ at ‘ERDF Cornwall Isles of Scilly convergence operational programme’ on page 133.</p><p> </p><p>For the European Social Fund (ESF) for 2007-13, information can be found on GOV.UK under ‘ESF operational programme for England and Gibraltar: 2007 to 2013’ at ‘England &amp; Gibraltar European Social Fund convergence, competitiveness and employment programme 2007-13’ at the table on pages 190 to 191. The line item for ‘Convergence’ for each year is for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.</p><p> </p><p>The European Commission’s figures for the Seventh Framework Programme 2007-2013 (last updated on 11 November 2015) show that the total value of grants awarded to organisations in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly was €7,369,261 (funding is not pre-allocated to regions). Information on all EU-funded research projects since 1990 can be found at the following link: <a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_en.html" target="_blank">http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_en.html</a>.</p><p> </p><p>2014-20 (current funding round)</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>For the ERDF for 2014-20, information can be found on GOV.UK under ‘2014 to 2020 European Regional Development Fund Operational Programme’ at ‘European Regional Development Fund Operational Programme 2014-20’ at the table on page 195. The line item for ‘Less developed’ for each year is for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.</p><p> </p><p>For the ESF for 2014-20, information can be found on GOV.UK under ‘European Social Fund Operational Programme: 2014 to 2020’ at the table on page 123. The line item for ‘Less developed’ for each year is for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.</p><p> </p><p>The Commission’s figures for the 2014-2020 Framework Programme, Horizon 2020, last updated on 29 October 2015, show that the total value of grants awarded to organisations in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly was €1,130,444.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 02/03/2016 16:04:11 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

453570

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: North of England
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what role they envisage for British-produced and British-manufactured steel in the Northern Powerhouse.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL6272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The UK steel industry has a key role in generating future economic growth across the country, including the Northern Powerhouse region. The steel sector is a critical element of the supply chain for high technology industries like aerospace, automotive and construction. These all require high value, continually improving steel products in order to remain competitive.</p><p> </p><p>The Government wants to drive up the number of public procurement contracts won by UK steel manufacturers, and have updated procurement rules accordingly. There are more major projects in the pipeline offering opportunities, for example HS2 and Network Rail’s £38bn five-year investment and replacement programme. We have mapped rough estimates of steel that could be needed for major projects including the above: we have shared this with industry and will continue updating them. Steps have also been agreed with industry on how to make better use of the pipelines as they are updated on a six monthly basis.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 02/03/2016 15:43:29 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

453571

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: Dumping
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what role they are playing in the EU to ensure that the dumping of cut-priced subsidised steel is brought to an end.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL6273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>The government is strongly in favour of effective trade defences to tackle unfair trade practices. We voted in favour of anti-dumping measures on steel products in July and November. We also supported the imposition of provisional anti-dumping measures on reinforcing bar in January, an investigation for which we lobbied the European Commission successfully, and on cold-rolled flat steel products in February. We share the steel industry’s concerns about the level of duties imposed in both cases, and we are pressing the Commission to reconsider this. We also welcomed the opening of three new anti-dumping investigations in February.</p><p> </p><p>The government is also pushing the Commission for faster, more effective action to deal with dumping of steel. This was one of the conclusions of the Extraordinary Competitiveness Council on Steel in November, a meeting which my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills was instrumental in convening. In advance of the European Commission’s energy-intensive industry stakeholder’s summit on 15 February – another key action from the Competitiveness Council - the government and several other EU Member States sent a joint letter to the Commission, pressing it to make full and timely use of all trade defence instruments to tackle unfair trade. My Rt Hon Friend the Minister of State for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise played an active role at this summit. My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills has also raised these issues in discussions with Trade Commissioner Malmström, most recently on 25 February. I reiterated the need for faster and more effective action on dumping at the Competitiveness Council held on 29<sup>th</sup> February and the Presidency conclusions of that Council reflected this message.</p><p> </p><p>The government is also supporting a robust discussion of the issue of overcapacity through the EU’s ongoing dialogue with the Chinese and other governments.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/03/2016 15:54:19 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

453581

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Software
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have  considered tackling in-built obsolescence in computer software, equivalent to legislation in France under decree 1482, and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Wills
uin	HL6283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>Decree 1482 concerns obsolescence in appliances rather than computer software. The Government is not specifically considering obsolescence in computer software but has protected consumers in a different way. Since October 2015 consumers have had new rights under the Consumer Rights Act in relation to digital content including software. Software must be of satisfactory quality which includes remaining functional for the period a consumer can reasonably expect.</p><p>Decree 1482 does not cover internet search engines and the concept of in-built obsolescence in relation to internet search engines is unclear so the Government has no plans to address this issue.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 08/03/2016 17:18:54 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	260 label Biography information for Lord Wills

453582

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have  considered tackling in-built obsolescence in relation to internet search engines, equivalent to legislation in France under decree 1482, and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Wills
uin	HL6284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>Decree 1482 concerns obsolescence in appliances rather than computer software. The Government is not specifically considering obsolescence in computer software but has protected consumers in a different way. Since October 2015 consumers have had new rights under the Consumer Rights Act in relation to digital content including software. Software must be of satisfactory quality which includes remaining functional for the period a consumer can reasonably expect.</p><p>Decree 1482 does not cover internet search engines and the concept of in-built obsolescence in relation to internet search engines is unclear so the Government has no plans to address this issue.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 08/03/2016 17:20:16 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	260 label Biography information for Lord Wills

453583

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Software: EU Law
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to implementing the EU Waste Electrical Equipment Directive (2012/19/EU) in relation to computer software.
tabling member printed	Lord Wills
uin	HL6285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">No consideration has been given as internet search engines are not within the defined scope of the Waste Electrical &amp; Electronic Equipment Directive. The scope of the WEEE Directive is restricted to equipment which is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work properly or equipment for the generation, transfer and measurement of such currents and fields.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">No consideration has been given to either computer software or internet search engines because they do not fall within the definition of electrical and electronic equipment specified in the WEEE Directive. Software is normally either downloaded to equipment or purchased on CDs. It is the equipment that is used to run the software that would fall in scope since that equipment is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work properly. An internet search engine is a service, not a piece of equipment, and so is also outside the scope of the Directive.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 08/03/2016 16:58:34 question first ministerially corrected 21/03/2016 11:38:43 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe previous answer version 49925 answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	260 label Biography information for Lord Wills

453584

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to implementing the EU Waste Electrical Equipment Directive (2012/19/EU) in relation to internet search engines.
tabling member printed	Lord Wills
uin	HL6286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">No consideration has been given as internet search engines are not within the defined scope of the Waste Electrical &amp; Electronic Equipment Directive. The scope of the WEEE Directive is restricted to equipment which is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work properly or equipment for the generation, transfer and measurement of such currents and fields.</del></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">No consideration has been given to either computer software or internet search engines because they do not fall within the definition of electrical and electronic equipment specified in the WEEE Directive. Software is normally either downloaded to equipment or purchased on CDs. It is the equipment that is used to run the software that would fall in scope since that equipment is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work properly. An internet search engine is a service, not a piece of equipment, and so is also outside the scope of the Directive.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 08/03/2016 16:58:53 question first ministerially corrected 21/03/2016 11:38:31 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe previous answer version 49931 answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	260 label Biography information for Lord Wills

453610

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Universities
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the cost to UK universities of implementing the Immigration Skills Charge for non-EU workers recruited through the Tier 2 Visa Route, as proposed in Clause 55 of the Immigration Bill, and of the charges recommended by the Migration Advisory Committee.
tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Finsbury
uin	HL6312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government has not estimated the cost to UK universities of implementing the Immigration Skills Charge. The cost will depend on the rate set and the Government is considering carefully the Migration Advisory Committee’s recommendations on rate and scope. Evidence about the likely impact of different rates on different types of organisation, including universities, will be taken into account in our considerations.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 02/03/2016 15:11:25 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	186 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Finsbury

453625

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 16 February 2016 to Question 26010, when his Department plans to establish the reading room for classified documents relating to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	27767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2016 answer text <p>The reading room for classified documents relating to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is not yet open. Members of both Houses will be informed of the process and details of how to access the room shortly, once these have been finalised.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 25/02/2016 16:26:38 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

453626

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Higher Education: UK Membership of EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of a UK withdrawal from the EU on the (a) number of EU students in the UK university student body, (b) ability of UK universities to recruit EU staff into the academic workforce and (c) number of UK students participating in the European exchange programme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	27698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>The Prime Minister has delivered on the commitment to renegotiate a better deal for the United Kingdom in Europe.</p><p>Based on this deal the Government has reached a clear view: The UK will be safer, stronger and better off by remaining a member of a reformed European Union.</p><p>I recently spoke about the important academic links between the UK and the rest of the EU. The speech is available on GOV.UK at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/making-britain-the-best-place-in-the-world-for-science" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/making-britain-the-best-place-in-the-world-for-science</a>.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 29/02/2016 14:30:07 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden