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1058772

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill
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 the timetable is for the publication of the Government's response to the consultation on the draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	219477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government published the draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill on 23 July 2018. Alongside this, an Overview Document was published which, while providing an overview of the policy and how the register will work, sought views on how the clauses will be implemented in practice.</p><p> </p><p>The draft Bill is expected to undergo pre-legislative scrutiny by a joint <em>ad hoc</em> Committee. The Committee will report to Parliament, following which the Government intends to respond to the Committee’s report. The response will reflect the responses to the Overview Document.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 14/02/2019 17:56:32 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1058798

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Electric Vehicles: Fuel Cells
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 he has plans to introduce an equivalent to the Faraday challenge for the promotion and further development of hydrogen fuel cell technology for electric vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	219572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>Through the Industrial Strategy Future of Mobility Grand Challenge we want to put the UK at the forefront of the design and manufacturing of zero emission vehicles.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s Road to Zero Strategy, published in July 2018, outlines a series of measures of support for hydrogen in transport, including a £23m Hydrogen for Transport Programme (HTP) to support an increase in the development and uptake of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles and grow the number of Hydrogen Refuelling Stations.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 14/02/2019 17:56:37 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1058822

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Volcanoes: Monitoring
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much grant funding has been awarded to the Met Office for volcanic ash weather monitoring in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	219330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>No grant funding has been awarded to the Met Office for this purpose in the time period specified. However the Met Office received a £3M grant in 2013 to build, operate and maintain a ground based observing capability (LiDAR network) for the purpose of detecting and measuring volcanic ash. This network become operational in 2017 and continues to be used.</p><p>The operational costs of this network are funded as part of the aviation services which the Met Office provides on behalf of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 14/02/2019 16:27:14 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1058854

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when the Government plans to publish its response to the ethnicity pay gap consultation; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	219472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The consultation on ethnicity pay reporting closed on 11 January 2019 and we received over detailed 300 responses. We are currently analysing responses and will publish a response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 14/02/2019 17:56:43 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1058861

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Fuel Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households have been classified as being in fuel poverty; and how many of those households include (a) children and (b) people aged over 60 in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	219305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>This is publicly available information: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-trends-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-trends-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/02/2019 14:40:22 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1058862

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Business: Energy
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 his Department is taking to encouraging businesses to reduce unnecessary energy consumption.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	219579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>The Clean Growth Strategy sets out our ambition to enable business consumers to reduce their energy usage by improving energy efficiency by at least 20% by 2030, potentially reducing carbon emissions by 22MtCO<sub>2</sub>e over the fifth Carbon Budget.</p><p> </p><p>At Budget, in November 2018, we announced up to £315M for an Industrial Energy Transformation Fund to support businesses with high energy use to invest in energy efficiency and decarbonisation measures. We also announced we would publish a call for evidence in 2019 on introducing a new Business Energy Efficiency Scheme, focused on smaller businesses.</p><p> </p><p>We have introduced a more streamlined energy and carbon reporting framework to help businesses to reduce their carbon emissions and associated energy costs, which will come into force on 1 April this year. Under the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS), all large businesses are required to audit the energy used by their buildings, industrial processes and transport to identify cost-effective energy saving measures. We are undertaking a comprehensive assessment of the impact and effectiveness of ESOS and will consider future reforms when the current phase ends in December 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The Climate Change Agreements Scheme incentivises a wide range of industrial sectors to reduce energy use and carbon dioxide emissions in return for a significant discount on the Climate Change Levy. And we have recently launched a new £18 million Industrial Heat Recovery Support Programme that supports the recovery and re-use of waste heat from industrial processes, and committed £8.8 million to promote innovative approaches to energy management using smart meters.</p><p> </p><p>We are taking steps to build capacity and capability in the energy services market including through a £5.6 million competition to encourage innovation in aggregating and scaling up smaller energy saving projects across commercial and industrial buildings.</p><p> </p><p>We are also working to ensure that those who lease premises to businesses continue to refurbish and improve the performance of their buildings. This included bringing new regulations into force in April last year which set a minimum energy efficiency standard for non-domestic rented buildings. On current plans, we will consult on proposals to go further in 2019. In parallel, we are clear that all new commercial and industrial buildings should be more energy efficient and are planning to review Part L of the Building Regulations in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/02/2019 14:34:18 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1059025

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Research: Publishing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to make an economic assessment of the policy options considered by UK Research and Innovation’s review of Open Access policy.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>Open Access is central to the Government’s and UKRI’s ambitions for research and innovation, with openness being key to world class research and delivering the wider aims of the Industrial Strategy. Sharing knowledge openly has benefits not only for researchers, but also businesses and wider society by accelerating new discoveries.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS will be working with UKRI to ensure that overall economic issues are considered as part of the UKRI Open Access Review. The Open Access review will seek to support an economic model where the fair, transparent and reasonable costs of Open Access publishing are met, while addressing the need for sustainability. The review will consider Open Access models and innovations which can help enhance Open Access and assist the sector to more easily comply with UKRI policy. UKRI will lead on consideration of the costs and sustainability of achieving our Open Access aims and BEIS will consider the wider economic implications when policy options are developed in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 219419 219420 219421 question first answered 14/02/2019 16:27:23 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1059034

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Research: Publishing
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 role his Department will play in the review being conducted by UK Research and Innovation on Open Access policy; and whether his Department will be represented on the Open Access Review Steering Group.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>Open Access is central to the Government’s and UKRI’s ambitions for research and innovation, with openness being key to world class research and delivering the wider aims of the Industrial Strategy. Sharing knowledge openly has benefits not only for researchers, but also businesses and wider society by accelerating new discoveries.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS will be working with UKRI to ensure that overall economic issues are considered as part of the UKRI Open Access Review. The Open Access review will seek to support an economic model where the fair, transparent and reasonable costs of Open Access publishing are met, while addressing the need for sustainability. The review will consider Open Access models and innovations which can help enhance Open Access and assist the sector to more easily comply with UKRI policy. UKRI will lead on consideration of the costs and sustainability of achieving our Open Access aims and BEIS will consider the wider economic implications when policy options are developed in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 219418 219420 219421 question first answered 14/02/2019 16:27:23 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1059050

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Research: Publishing
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 potential merits of expanding Open Access research.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>Open Access is central to the Government’s and UKRI’s ambitions for research and innovation, with openness being key to world class research and delivering the wider aims of the Industrial Strategy. Sharing knowledge openly has benefits not only for researchers, but also businesses and wider society by accelerating new discoveries.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS will be working with UKRI to ensure that overall economic issues are considered as part of the UKRI Open Access Review. The Open Access review will seek to support an economic model where the fair, transparent and reasonable costs of Open Access publishing are met, while addressing the need for sustainability. The review will consider Open Access models and innovations which can help enhance Open Access and assist the sector to more easily comply with UKRI policy. UKRI will lead on consideration of the costs and sustainability of achieving our Open Access aims and BEIS will consider the wider economic implications when policy options are developed in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 219418 219419 219421 question first answered 14/02/2019 16:27:24 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1059051

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Research: Publishing
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 his Department has made of the potential merits of Open Access publishing for humanities and social sciences publishing.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>Open Access is central to the Government’s and UKRI’s ambitions for research and innovation, with openness being key to world class research and delivering the wider aims of the Industrial Strategy. Sharing knowledge openly has benefits not only for researchers, but also businesses and wider society by accelerating new discoveries.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS will be working with UKRI to ensure that overall economic issues are considered as part of the UKRI Open Access Review. The Open Access review will seek to support an economic model where the fair, transparent and reasonable costs of Open Access publishing are met, while addressing the need for sustainability. The review will consider Open Access models and innovations which can help enhance Open Access and assist the sector to more easily comply with UKRI policy. UKRI will lead on consideration of the costs and sustainability of achieving our Open Access aims and BEIS will consider the wider economic implications when policy options are developed in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 219418 219419 219420 question first answered 14/02/2019 16:27:24 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah