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1108759

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Energy: Housing
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 21 March 2019 to Question 233620 on Energy: Housing, who the technical author was of PAS 2035.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	239303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The technical author for PAS 2035 is Peter Rickaby, as appointed by the independent British Standards Institute (BSI).</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 04/04/2019 15:07:52 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1108760

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Energy: Housing
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 individuals gained a Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination and Risk Management in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	239304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Retrofit Academy and its partners, the Federation of Master Builders, Engie and INCA, developed the Open College Network West Midlands Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination and Risk Management course.</p><p>The new online Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination and Risk Management, was developed by the Federation of Master Builders with funding from the Construction Industry Training Board, specifically to support the development of PAS 2035 (Publicly Available Standards for domestic retrofit) in response to the Each Home Counts review.</p><p>The Department does not own the qualification nor hold information on industry uptake.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 239305 239306 question first answered 04/04/2019 09:23:39 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1108761

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Energy: Housing
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 estimate he has made of number of people that will achieve a Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination and Risk Management by December 2020.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	239305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Retrofit Academy and its partners, the Federation of Master Builders, Engie and INCA, developed the Open College Network West Midlands Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination and Risk Management course.</p><p>The new online Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination and Risk Management, was developed by the Federation of Master Builders with funding from the Construction Industry Training Board, specifically to support the development of PAS 2035 (Publicly Available Standards for domestic retrofit) in response to the Each Home Counts review.</p><p>The Department does not own the qualification nor hold information on industry uptake.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 239304 239306 question first answered 04/04/2019 09:23:39 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1108764

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Energy: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, who developed the Open College Network West Midlands Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination and Risk Management course.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	239306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Retrofit Academy and its partners, the Federation of Master Builders, Engie and INCA, developed the Open College Network West Midlands Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination and Risk Management course.</p><p>The new online Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination and Risk Management, was developed by the Federation of Master Builders with funding from the Construction Industry Training Board, specifically to support the development of PAS 2035 (Publicly Available Standards for domestic retrofit) in response to the Each Home Counts review.</p><p>The Department does not own the qualification nor hold information on industry uptake.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 239304 239305 question first answered 04/04/2019 09:23:39 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1108766

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Energy: Housing
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 PAS 2035 energy efficiency measures are compatible with the advice that his Department receives from the Committee on Climate Change.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	239307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The PAS 2035 is being developed to address systemic shortcomings in the delivery of domestic retrofit as identified in the independent Each Home Counts Review. The Department remains committed to delivering this whilst considering relevant information from other sources. The most recent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) Report UK published in February 2019 also acknowledges a persistent performance and skills gap in the retrofit industry as highlighted by the Each Home Counts Review. The Department is also taking a range of other policy action to increase deployment of energy efficiency, as the CCC have recommended.</p><p> </p><p>PAS 2035 aims to address these issues and encourage better quality delivery. PAS standards are refreshed every two years and at this point learnings from delivery and other sources, such as the CCC, will feed into developing the next iteration.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 04/04/2019 09:23:52 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1108823

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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	Solar Events
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they have put in place to protect against geomagnetic disturbances; and whether they have published, or intend to publish, the details of any such measures.
tabling member printed	Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom
uin	HL14930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government has assessed the risk of geomagnetic disturbances from Space Weather and identified actions to manage the risks, these are set out in the National Risk Register (2017 edition) on Gov.uk.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 04/04/2019 11:38:26 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley attachment 1 file name UK_National_Risk_Register_2017.pdf title National Risk Register Of Civil Emergencies 2017
tabling member	56 label Biography information for Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom

1107742

registered interest
date	29/03/2019
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: EU Grants and Loans
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 guarantee that UK Research and Innovation will sign the terms of grants of researchers who have submitted successful bids for European Research Council advanced grants in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal before the advanced grant process has been completed.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods
uin	238616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government underwrite guarantee will cover funding for all successful UK bids to Horizon 2020 that are submitted before exit, even if they are notified of success after exit. This includes the 47 successful UK bids to the ERC Advanced Grant 2018 call which form part of the €540m funding recently announced by the European Commission for cutting edge research.</p><p> </p><p>The UKRI portal was announced in the Horizon 2020 Technical Notice and is part of our plans to underwrite funding for UK Horizon 2020 beneficiaries in the event of ‘no deal’. In this scenario, UK beneficiaries who have registered on the UKRI portal will receive detailed information about how the guarantee will be delivered and the next steps that they need to take.</p><p> </p><p>If the underwrite does need to come into effect, our delivery partner, UKRI, is ready to deliver and has planned to make the process as simple and effective as possible for UK beneficiaries.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/04/2019 15:08:44 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1501 label Biography information for Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods

1107743

registered interest
date	29/03/2019
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: EU Grants and Loans
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 ensure continuity of funding for research projects with EU funding in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	238649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave my hon. Friend the Member for North Herefordshire on 26 March 2019 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-03-18/233471/" target="_blank">233471</a> on the funding of research projects with EU funding.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/04/2019 15:10:00 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green

1107744

registered interest
date	29/03/2019
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	Immunology: Training
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 increase skills in the workforce in relation to immunology.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	238650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The second Life Sciences Sector Deal published in December 2018, sets out a package of skills commitments between government and sector partners to help deliver the priority skills needs for life sciences broadly and to make the most of future opportunities. These commitments include: a Life Sciences Skills Strategy 2030; exploring the potential for a pilot to better encourage life sciences SMEs to take on apprentices; and a pilot programme for clinical academic research partnerships supported by £10m funding from the Medical Research Council.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/04/2019 15:11:06 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green

1107774

registered interest
date	29/03/2019
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: Billing
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 ensure that large companies issue payments to contractors within reasonable times.
tabling member constituency	Gordon
tabling member printed	Colin Clark
uin	238676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>Last year Government launched a Call for Evidence to assess what further steps and intervention may be needed to create a responsible payment culture. A full response will be published shortly and will contain a full package of policy measures.</p><p>During the Spring Statement, the Government announced that it will require large company’s Audit Committees to review payments practices and report them in their annual accounts. This will elevate payment practices to Board level and increase transparency.</p><p>Government is clear that unfavourable payment practices is a serious issue, particularly for smaller businesses. That is why we have a range of measures in place with the aim to address the imbalance in market power between parties, increase transparency and encourage better payment practices through culture change.</p><p>The Payment Practices and Performance Reporting Requirement requires large businesses to report biannually on their payment practices and performance. Businesses must publish this information on gov.uk, providing transparency in payment practices and making payment behaviour a reputational, board room issue. To date over 13,000 reports have been submitted.</p><p>The Small Business Commissioner, launched in December 2017, is committed to supporting Britain’s 5.7 million small businesses to resolve payment disputes with larger private sector businesses, helping drive a culture change in payment practices.</p><p>Government continues to support the Prompt Payment Code as a best practice in payment standards. Last year, my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced a new, tough and transparent compliance regime to ensure the Code is rigorously enforced. The Secretary of State also announced that he had appointed the Small Business Commissioner to the Prompt Payment Code Compliance Board.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 04/04/2019 15:12:49 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4650 label Biography information for Colin Clark